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    Cycles of Salvation History: Genesis, the Flood and Marian Apparitions
    Cycles of Salvation History: Genesis, the Flood and Marian Apparitions
    Cycles of Salvation History: Genesis, the Flood and Marian Apparitions
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    Cycles of Salvation History: Genesis, the Flood and Marian Apparitions

    By Ulrich Utiger

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    The Bible is a historical book from the start to the end written by generations of authors covering centuries of history. This is why all answers the Bible offers to questions regarding salvation and Christian faith must be understood within the entire context of salvation history.

    The creation of the world and early humanity according to the book of Genesis is the beginning of salvation history. One may argue that Genesis is only relevant to questions of faith. However, as a safe and reliable source of information regarding faith, Genesis must also withstand a comparison with modern science. This issue is discussed in the first part of the present book.

    After the creation of the world, salvation history is restricted to the patriarchs, followed by the history of Israel, the first Christians and the primitive Church. At a later time, it includes the history of Christianity joining contemporary history as well as a near and distant future described by the prophetic biblical accounts.

    It can be shown that salvation history is recurring through cycles composed of four typical phases based respectively on initial integrity (peace), followed by transgression (sin), leading to suffering (judgment) and finally calling for salvation (return to peace). These cycles of salvation history are recapitulated in the second part.

    A recurring salvation history implies, for instance, that there is not only one flood but several. This is why the long patriarchs' ages have several meanings as well. As a consequence, they not only allow to calculate the classical creation dates but also timelines that accord with the scientific fossil record of modern humans and even the Neanderthals.

    Other issues related to the Genesis vs. science debate, the Daniel and Revelation eschatology, and a lot of other important mysteries can be explained through a recurring salvation history. In particular, Marian apparitions make part of a special phase of the recurring cycles, which is presented in the third part.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUlrich Utiger
    Release dateJun 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301011926
    Cycles of Salvation History: Genesis, the Flood and Marian Apparitions
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    Ulrich Utiger

    Ulrich Utiger was born in Switzerland in 1958. After high school, he preferred to get a job rather than to go to university. He became a freelance builder and was engaged, among others, in a Franciscan Convent during several years. Later, he studied theoretical physics and master graduated in 2007. He is since then working as a high school teacher. After stays in Lourdes and Medjugorje, he got very interested in questions of faith and studied Catholic theology on an autodidactic basis. However, he did not always find satisfying answers to his questions in books. This is why he tried to complete the answers himself. As a result, he wrote the present book about the Genesis vs. science issue, salvation history and Mariology.

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      An interesting theology! The idea is that the truths of the Bible repeat in cycles throughout history, culminating in the second coming of Jesus for a final fulfillment.Utiger begins with the assumption that the Bible is of divine authorship, and then proceeds to make sense of it in light of history and scientific findings. In discussing the creation, for example, he notes that Genesis records the creation of birds before animals, though they actually appeared later in evolutionary history. So the creation story probably merely uses “birds” to refer to the celestial world, and the creation of angels, right? Birds live in a medium representing heaven.As you can see, not all images in Genesis should be interpreted literally. The snake in the Garden is merely a representation of Satan, and the paradise of Eden was “of course childhood, during which the boy is still free form work and the girl does not yet bring forth children in the pain.”Transition from one phase to another is significant. Since the sixth day of creation is a transition from land animals to humans, this may be a hint that humans descend from the animal kingdom. (Utinger is not, however, a believer in natural selection. He finds it in opposition to reality: the aim of evolution was to bring forth humankind created in the image of God, so it could hardly have been undirected).Utiger speculates about Genesis, Daniel, Revelation, and more. An interesting side trip into Marian apparitions rounds out the discussion. This focus on the Blessed Virgin is not coincidental; Utiger has studied Catholic theology and Mariology, and finds apparitions to be supported and predicted by the Bible. For example, read about the apparition of a woman clothed with the sun in Revelation chapter 12.This is not an easy read, because the author makes a marked attempt to be brief. I got the feeling, as I was reading, that I was barely scraping the surface of a huge topic. Readers: before you dig into the book, take a peek at pages 186 and 187, which show five major eras of time, from the creation of angels to the millennial reign. These eras are further broken down into fourteen different cycles, where each cycle goes through the four stages of peace, sin, judgement, and revival. You will want to refer back to this chart as you read, so that you can get your bearing with each topic Utinger introduces. I discovered the chart about halfway through my reading, and things began to fall into place with that visual, making the rest of the book easier to comprehend.From my perspective, I think the book is fun, and filled with interesting tidbits, but I can’t get behind the theology … or any theology which treats the Bible like a divine puzzle to be solved more than a collection of human experiences grasping toward God. Read it for an interesting perspective of salvation history, and decide for yourself.

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