Heil und Erlösung

This book is divided into three parts. Takashi Onuki begins by dealing with new literary and sociological aspects of the gospels and the story of the miraculous healings performed by Jesus and takes a close look at Jesus' concept of time, characterized by an »omnitemporal now«, and its subsequent consequences In the second part of the work, he focuses on gnosticism with regard to its traditional and intellectual relationship to the Johannine writings and the Hellenistic schools of philosophy. The third part revolves around the attempt to describe and explain the problematic role played by apocalypticism and gnosticism in Japan today and in other industrialized countries as well.