| 051 | Were there a variety of ways in which early Christians thought of an “end time”? |
| 051 | Scholars consider that there was an eschatology in the early church that incorporated the idea of Jesus coming in a spiritual sense, rather than the church needing to wait for an "end-time | Mark Allan Powell, What Are They Saying About Acts? (New York: Paulist Press, 1991), 59-60. |