An Advent Analysis

I have a new (unpublished) paper on Academia (see link at top right of this blog). It's called "An Advent Analysis: refiguring the return of Christ". The little introduction to it reads as follows:

Those familiar with the Christian liturgical calendar will recall that the first Sunday of Advent continues the theme from the previous week, the end of the age and the coming of Christ. Since we’re at that time of year again, I thought it worth sharing some extended reflections on this theme, provoked by an Advent sermon I listened to almost exactly two years ago. It draws together a line of thought that biblical academics are quite familiar with, even if this line rarely makes it into the pulpit. It follows three sections: Recasting disappointment, Redeeming the text, and Refiguring the return.