Anna Pokorná Eschatological Aspects of the Twelve Tribes' Teachings: A Theological Perspective Anna Pokorná, "Eschatological aspects of the Twelve Tribes' Teachings: A theological perspective", Central European Journal of Contemporary Religion 3 (1, 2018): p. 1-28. In this text, I offer
a basic description of the theology of the Twelve Tribes movement based both on
a research study of relevant written sources and on participant observation and
interviews with the members of the Twelve Tribes community of Mšecké Žehrovice.
I focus especially on the eschatological expectations. The study explains the
core motivations of the members’ beliefs, such as the intent to return to the
ideal of God’s creation. In their endeavors, they use two portions of the
biblical tradition – the first four generations of Abraham’s family and, again,
first four generations of the Early Church. According to the Twelve Tribes, both
traditions represent historically successful intents to form God’s true people.
The article explains the evolution of the covenant between God and his people
and the way the movement recognizes it in history. I concentrate both on the content
the Twelve Tribes adopted from its sources in Old and New Testament and on its
critical evaluation. Nevertheless, the core emphasis of the article is the
movement’s eschatology. It is precisely this dimension of their teachings that represents
the main ambition of the Twelve Tribes: that is, to help with the transformation
of the eras and earn the right to call themselves God’s true people. The
theological view of this New Religious Movement’s belief and practice, which I
present in this study, also covers the controversial topics of child training
and closed community life.
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