Theological Notebook: A Further Thought on the Odes of Solomon

[novak]

Drat. I just realized that I ought to have highlighted more clearly the significance of The Odes of Solomon as evidencing a "realized eschatology," like the Gospel of John has, in the article being published in Vigiliae Christianae. Like John, and in contrast to earliest Christian literature, the Odes seem not to expect an immanent return of

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[mushfromnewsies]

This is one of those areas of Catholic and/or historical Christian doctrine that I know noooothing about. So that alone interests me. Are the Odes of Solomon considered, you know, orthodox? Or is this one of those grey areas? I know it comes from a rather separate tradition. In any case, we do say in the Creed that He will come again in glory to judge the quick and the dead...

Also I just have to say that my first reaction to this entry was: my grandparents would flip over this. I and my immediate family have always believed in a literal Second Coming and a Final Judgment (also, a new heavens and a new earth) in league with that, but never went any further in apocalyptic speculation. My grandparents, on the other hand, are straight-up pre-millenial dispensationalists. One of the first questions my grandma asked me in the year or so after I became Catholic, was whether Catholics believed in the Rapture. All I remember telling her is that the Rapture was not a part of the tradition, but Catholics of course believed in a literal Second