Sentences with phrase «christian eschatological»

We translate Christian eschatological hopes into Marxist revolutionary ones, or we translate salvation into self - fulfillment.

The marriage of this Jewish - Christian eschatological picture and the Greek philosophical view was not easily accomplished, nor was that marriage without its difficulties — it was hardly a quiet and successful relationship.

In the end, my biggest problem with the book — and the particular Christian eschatological vision that underlies it — is that Hauerwas never tries to imagine what real life would look like if we adopted his ethic.

Strangely enough, but not so strangely if one considers the historical period in which it was conceived, Whitehead's dipolar language promises the recovery of a long lost Christian eschatological language.

By following, in large measure, the original theological method of Barth, Bultmann maintains that the most authentic meaning of the primitive Christian eschatological expectation refers not to a cosmic end of the world but rather to a Krisis in human existence.

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He articulates an eschatological realism in line with the broad Christian tradition.

For Christians however, biblical religion provides a fuller vision of what such participation and stewardship entail and the substance of human flourishing, for which the dominant teleological and eschatological images are a Garden and a City, a New Eden and a New Jerusalem.

The goal of the Christian life is to be found in the experience of «perfect love,» and the eschatological hope is expressed in similar language.

Bultmann's theology also proceeds out of the two elements of the modern experience of the eclipse of God and the modern «scandal» of the eschatological foundations of the Christian faith.

May the Christian greet our Existenz as a paradoxical way through which he may pass to eschatological faith?

But in the midst of his eschatological description of Christian existence Paul introduces a few phrases which express the existential meaning of the kerygma.

4.8 - 13, which describes Christian existence first in eschatological terms such as Jesus used, and then in Paul's more typical language of union with Christ.

Again, both take as their starting point the eschatological «scandal» of the Christian faith, which as we have seen is a parallel way of formulating Nietzsche's condemnation of the No - saying of Christianity.

Here it is clear that Jesus» eschatological message, including his eschatological interpretation of his own conduct, has been continued in christological terms by the Easter faith and the Christian kerygma.

And it is this eschatological tension that gives the Christian presence in the world its revolutionary vigor.

Remembering the radical Christian affirmation that God has fully and totally become incarnate in Christ, we must note that neither the Incarnation nor the Crucifixion can here be understood as isolated and once - and - for - all events; rather, they must be conceived as primary expressions of a forward - moving and eschatological process of redemption, a process embodying a progressive movement of Spirit into flesh.

Can we not make the judgment that it is precisely this vision of the death of God in Christ that can make possible for us a realization of the deeper meaning of the Christian and eschatological symbol of the dawning of the Kingdom of God?

Most fundamentally: how exactly do your eschatological views, particularly in teasing out these details, provide a well - supported basis for a Christian social ethic?

Inevitably, the orthodox expressions of Christianity abandoned an eschatological ground, and no doubt the radical Christian's recovery of an apocalyptic faith and vision was in part occasioned by his own estrangement from the dominant and established forms of the Christian tradition.

We can sense something of the early Christian understanding of the eschatological meaning of the new covenant by noting the words of Paul, who, while speaking of the old covenant as a law of death and condemnation, rejoices that the glory of the new covenant so surpasses the glory of the old that the old covenant now has no glory at all:

Now this certainly does not mean that the Christians could cause and help to establish their eschatological hope, which is the kingdom of God and ultimately God himself, by their cultural activities.

For the spirit of the evangelical counsels, of the Sermon on the Mount, of the cross, the spirit of hope in the risen Christ and an eschatological attitude to life belong to all Christian existence and are binding on all.

If Christianity be rightly understood and if Christians understand themselves correctly, things are exactly the opposite of what most Christians and non-Christians imagine: hope in the absolute future of God who is himself the eschatological salvation does not justify a fossilized conservatism which anxiously prefers the safe present to an unknown future; it is not a tranquillizing «opium for the people» in present sorrow; it is, on the contrary, the authoritative call to an ever - renewed, confident exodus from the present into the future, even in this world.

The task of the Christian church is to preach Christ and all that pertains to God's eschatological message of salvation that comes solely through Christ.

It means that the Christian Word becomes fully incarnate in the concrete actuality of human flesh, that it is present wherever that which has been becomes anew, or wherever the present seeks fulfillment in a redemptive and eschatological future.

Eschatological faith is the expression of an immediate participation in the «Kingdom of God» — an apocalyptic symbol that was never assimilated by Christian theology.

At this point the eschatological question becomes paramount, and I proceed with the theological conviction that the Christian names of Christ and the Kingdom of God are integrally and necessarily related to each other.

The Christian life is an incarnation in time, but this time is not ceaseless becoming; it is evolutionary, tending toward eschatological time.

The specifically apocalyptic or eschatological ground of the Christian faith demands that it be a forward - moving process revolving about the absolute negation of the old cosmos of a totally fallen history.

So Mister Jeffress thinks that the eschatological prediction of doomsday on May 21 is more damaging to Christianity than the prediction of «rapture» preached by Southern Baptists which will teleport born again Christians to heaven while God brings all forms of natural disasters, disease, suffering, and evil upon the rest of mankind.

If that trust is articulated in the properly eschatological terms of Christian self - understanding, then a confident hope for a future full recognition of that God, a hope for a vision of the whole beyond present ambiguity and brokenness, is disclosed in the proleptic manifestation called Jesus Christ.

The Christian message of Salvation in Christ in its total eschatological framework (with which Col. 3 begins) should be kept in intimate relation to the historical mission of promoting koinonia in both the churchly sacramental and pluralistically secular dimensions of community life in the modern world.

Hoping for the redemption of all creation, Christians maintain a certain eschatological reserve about the way things are.

Since, as well as before my change, my theological thinking centers and has centered in its emphasis upon the majesty of God, the eschatological character of the whole Christian message, and the preaching of the gospel in its purity as the sole task of the Christian church.

Jenson's thesis that serious Christian theology has to be trinitarian and that its treatment of the trinitarian life of God has to encompass everything else» creation, Church, and the eschatological future» corresponds to a growing consensus among the more thoughtful of contemporary theologians.

In other words, Thomas has removed most of the eschatological element from Christian teaching.

Jews and Christians share a common hope: «Within this eschatological horizon is offered a real prospect of universal brotherhood on the path of justice and peace, preparing the way of the Lord....

What invariably emerges in such circles is the kind of thinking that impels evangelical Christians into missions, the pastorate, or a career whose financial remuneration contributes to these eschatological vocations.

It arises directly out of the primitive Christian valuation of the facts of history and experience as eschatological facts, that is, as the ultimate manifestation in time of the eternal counsel of God.

In the last lecture we traced one line of development from the original apostolic Preaching; that, namely, which starting from the eschatological valuation of facts of the past — the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ — resulted in the production of that distinctively Christian form of literature known as Gospels.

For instance, since the eschatological expectations recorded in both the Hebrew and Christian testaments have not come to pass after hundreds and hundreds of years, why should Christians today harbor the same expectations?

Quite naturally Christian theology has turned aside from the problem of the meaning of such a movement of repetition, just as it has refused the task of thinking through to its own ground in an eschatological End.

John therefore draws together two separate strains in the development of Christian thought: that which started from an eschatological valuation of the facts of present experience, and that which started from a similar valuation of the facts of past history.

As opposed to this backward movement of the religious expressions of mysticism, a Christian repetition must move forward beyond the death of a primordial or original sacred to an eschatological coincidentia oppositorum that reconciles and unites the sacred and the profane.

Yet such a formulation does violence both to an eschatological faith's engagement with the world and to the New Testament and Christian meaning of Incarnation.

Most Christian scholars would agree that the Gospels are midrashes upon the historic events of Jesus» life, midrashes that clarify Jesus» position as promised Messiah and eschatological Lord.

My own «mad and secret dream» may be to produce some eschatological day a Christian systematic theology in an age, when that genre seems to have all the prestige and desirability of epic poetry.

Until quite recently, for example, the Eucharist has rarely been seen by the majority of Christians as the radically eschatological celebration it is.

In the eschatological Christian community, the sense that the structures of communal and individual existence which had governed the past were now already at an end may well have relaxed the guard of consciousness against the powers of the unconscious.

Earlier liberalism saw in the proclamation of the Kerygma itself a stumbling block to modern man, and thus sidled away from its eschatological message, preferring to center upon the ethical dimension of Christian faith as this was expressed in the life and teaching of Jesus.