Sentences with phrase «christ event in another time»

Our task is not to be judgmental in a manner of spiritual superiority but to dig beneath the traditions to recover the spirit that originally animated them, so that we too may share in the original dynamic that enlivened the telling and acting out of the Christ event in another time and another place or among other Christians who expressed their response to the Christ event in a way foreign to our experience.

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The church lives between the times, rejoicing in the coming of Christ as the culminating event in the history of salvation.

They accused me of reducing the Easter event to a mere change of outlook on the part of the disciples, or, in the manner of Bultmann, to a decision on our part, at this present time, to accept as our Lord the Christ who encounters us in the Easter preaching of the Church, to which the whole question of an event alleged to have happened two thousand years ago is irrelevant.

It is justified to discern a «final revelation» from a «complete revelation,» as Cobb already knew in his dissertation (1952) 155 The uniqueness of the Christ event justifies its universality and an open - endedness at the same time.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

The dates for all the following major events can be estimated from the other books in the OT up to the time of Christ.

In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioIn taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «tendency toward the human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the new order of relationships just coming into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestatioin history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

The past which the Christian community or tradition inherits is first of all the event from which it took its origin — Jesus Christ as an historical reality, with all that this includes such as the preparation in Judaism for his coming, the way in which he was received and understood in his own time, his own sense of vocation for whatever he undertook, and the way in which he has come to have significance for later generations.

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

At the same time he was indicating very profoundly what God is «up to» in the continual coming to men and women which finds its climactic expression in the event of Jesus Christ, so far as Christian understanding is concerned, although we dare not be so exclusive or uncharitable as to rule out other ways for other people «who know not the Lord Jesus.»

Jesus Christ came into a real world, into a specific time and place; he interacted with actual people and participated in concrete events.

It was an event in the history of salvation, in the realm of eternity..., in an analogous way, history comes to an end in the religious experience of any Christian «who is in Christ»... For although the advent of Christ is an historical event which happened «once» in the past, it is, at the same time, an eternal event which occurs again and again in the soul of any Christian.»

The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.

In the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholenesIn the words of an ancient prayer, it is the visible expression of «that wonderful and sacred mystery» which speaks to us and works on us, through the very imperfection, weakness, error, and even the sin of the empirical institution, to manifest in the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholenesin the world of time and space the abiding reality of God's operation in the event of Christ for human wholenesin the event of Christ for human wholeness.

Is the preacher, then, to move away from historical considerations in search of the immediacy Bultmann has found in regarding the preaching event itself as the eschatological occurrence, the end - time for the man who hears Christ address him in the sermon with the threat of death or the promise of life?

Speaking to Premier at the launch of the event, J. John said: «Five years ago I felt the Lord said it's time to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ in the football stadiums.

For the believer, secure in his faith in a risen Lord, time and events between the coming of Christ and his Second Coming in glory are not meaningless flux.

Turning from sin and trusting in Christ for salvation isn't just a one - time initial event; it is the substance of the Christian life.

But exactly what he said and exactly how he acted is filtered, for all of time, through those who saw and heard him: «The only knowledge we possess of the Christ event reaches us via the concrete experience of the first local communities of Christians who were sensitive of a new life present in them.»

«This is a fantastic event and I do pray that all who take the time to follow that Cross of Witness will be reminded of the truth that in Jesus Christ is life and life in all its fullness.»

For Christians who follow this way of thinking, the formation of Israel in 1948 — and the subsequent 750,000 Arabs who either left their homes or were expelled — was a result of divine prophecy, a rebooting of the prophetic time clock, triggering a series of events that will culminate in the return of Christ.

Not long before his death, in a work entitled On the Church of Christ (1970), he wrote: «It seems to me, very significant that these two events of such great bearing — on the Jewish side the return of a portion of the people to the Promised Land, on the Christian side the Second Council of the Vatican — took place at almost the same time, the first in 1948, the second in 1962 — 1965.

The New Testament writers are those witnesses to Christ and to these acts of God who stand closest in time to the events.

Organized by the artists» longtime collaborator Ashland Mines, known in music circles around the world as DJ Total Freedom, the night's events culminated with a flash mob courtesy of Rachel Lord and inspired by the «Damned for All Time» number from «Jesus Christ Superstar.»