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"This volume is likely to become the stimulus for more than one series of sermons . . . More importantly, it may well stimulate its readers to live life now and die well because they have learned to live with eternity in view, cherishing the blessed promises and consolations of the gospel of Jesus Christ." (D. A. Carson)
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About the Author
Paul R. Williamson is lecturer in Old Testament, Hebrew and Aramaic at Moore College, Sydney. He is the author of Sealed with an Oath, a contributor to New Dictionary of Biblical Theology and Dictionary of the Old Testament, and coeditor of Exploring Exodus.
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Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology (Book 44)
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: IVP Academic (March 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830826459
ISBN-13: 978-0830826452
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5.4 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.4 out of 5 stars
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Helpful interaction with recent scholarship. Clear progression of thought.
Good reading!
This new entry in the New Studies in Biblical Theology (NSBT) series on death and what follows by Paul R. Williamson is a sane voice on one of the more explosive theological issues of our day. It lives up to the standards set by previous volumes in this series edited by D. A. Carson. It’s obvious that the author expended the necessary energy to make this volume a meaningful contribution. In fact, I suspect for most of us this will be the first book we will reach for what we are considering “biblical perspectives on ultimate questionsâ€.The first chapter surveys the issue both in the present with all the requisite statistics and ancient viewpoints of various peoples in the ANE. The chapter concludes with the viewpoint of Christianity and on page 22 formulates five key concepts on what he calls “the personal eschatology of Scriptureâ€. While we Christians might debate certain elements of those five key concepts, there’s no doubt he has set the parameters of this issue correctly.The next chapter discusses death itself. That requires a deep look into biblical anthropology as well as defining the soul. You will start seeing in this chapter what you will enjoy throughout the whole book: he masterfully marshals the appropriate Scriptures, exegetes them carefully, and draws out appropriate theology. He dodges nothing. Even tough subjects like Saul consulting a witch to bring up Samuel is analyzed. Chapter 3 looks into the resurrection. As that doctrine is key to Christianity itself, he is thorough in looking at it from every vantage point.Chapter 4 considers judgment. It was in this chapter that I had some disagreement with him because I hold to a pre-millennial viewpoint of prophecy. At times I thought the pre-millennial system would easily remove a few jams he became entangled in with Scripture exegesis. Still, I appreciated the spirit with which he would often mention how premillennialists would look at the situation, and how he was gracious when he disagreed.Chapter 5 looks at the widely debated subject of Hell. He did a great job discussing the debate as it stands today, what had been believed in the past, and how to think about the issue today. While I might take a few things mentioned in Scripture more literally than he does, he doesn’t dodge that the Bible says a great deal about that unpleasant subject. The final chapter looks at Heaven. Heaven has been recast in modern days as this wonderful place that everyone is going to, so he takes this past our self-produced fictions of heaven to see what the Bible actually has to say. Again, he helps us look at all the appropriate Scriptures.This book is at once helpful and important. It’s the perfect book to get your bearings straight on a theological subject that usually has more heat than light applied to it.I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.
Not at all impressed.Seems to want to waffle between scholarly acceptance and Biblical adherence.As a result the book flow is disjointed and a little like trying to nail jello to a tree.Kind of like grabbing a jelly donut anticipating the flavor and finding out there is not jelly in the donut!Put it away after reading first half.
The question of what the Bible teaches about death, the afterlife, and resurrection has been something I have studied quite a bit. So when I saw Paul Williamson’s new book Death And The Afterlife: Biblical Perspectives On Ultimate Questions, I was eager to dive into such a pertinent topic. Williamson’s book is primarily exegetical not philosophical.  Though this book did mention some of the issues that were mentioned in John Cooper’s work Body, Soul & Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism–Dualism Debate, the last book I read that attempted to weave together exegetical theology and philosophical theology was Stephen Davis's book Risen Indeed. Davis openly admitted his expertise is philosophy. Williamson’s strength is his exegetical training. Anyone who has read N.T. Wright’s Resurrection of the Son of God and has keep up with the literature knows there has been a variety of positions that have been debated for quite some time such as the nature of eternal punishment, annihilationism, and other issues. Williamson argues that these topics are the “ key† issues in the current debate as well as the topic of “works†at the final judgment. Scholars come to different conclusions. Even though Williamson argues for an intermediate state,one of the strengths of Williamson’s book is that he traces the variety of views of the afterlife in both Greco Roman, ANE, Mesopotamian, and Intertestamental literature. When we take this approach, we see that Jewish texts can go in different directions. Some teach temporary disembodiment, while others teach annihilationism.In chapter 6, which is called “ Heaven- the Ultimate Destinationâ€?†Williamson gives a detailed description of the new heavens, new earth. So when someone asks,  ‘Is heaven the ultimate destination?’  Williamson  says “ we would have to say, it depends; it depends on where you mean by heaven; but more importantly, it depends on who you think will go there†(pg 192).But just as Wright has already stressed, resurrection is  when we receive our  new resurrected bodies and we are dwelling on the new heavens and new earth.  As Williamson says:“Understood in terms of our eschatological re-embodiment, resurrection is indeed the ultimate makeover – not in the sense of being recreated from scratch, but in the sense of being suitably transformed for the age to come; resurrection, in its eschatological sense,96 involves more than reconstruction or reanimation; that is, it is more than mere resuscitation or even re-embodiment. While both these are implicitly involved, it is clear that, for Christians at least, there will also be significant improvement. For, as Paul observes, ‘the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality . . . [and] then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory†’ (1 Cor. 15:53–54).â€- pg 94.Here we see Williamson links the resurrection topic with eschatology. After all, they can't be separated. As he rightly says, the key concepts in the personal eschatology of Scripture are:1. A disembodied existence in an interim state between an individual’s death and his/her future resurrection. 2. The bodily resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked at the time of the parousia (the second coming of the Lord Jesus). 3. A final judgment of both the living and the dead (every human being who has ever lived), according to what they have done during their earthly lives. 4. The never-ending punishment of conscious torment in hell for those who are condemned at the last judgment. 5. The everlasting reward of an immortal life with God for those who have been sanctified and perfected through faith in Jesus (pg, 22).Overall, I would consider this book to be more of a systematic overview of death and the afterlife. I enjoyed the book and consider it a fine addition to anyone’s bibliography on the resurrection.
Sadly, he skirts around the subject of eternal punishment, with it could be this and there again it might be that. Very indecisive and inconclusive.Most people want the truth about the nature of Hell. Is it eternal, conditional, more about traditional concepts as opposed to Scripture?He creates a lot of uncertainty in verses that require a more literal take. His 'fudge' approach didn't work for me.
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