Sentences with phrase «christian eschatology»

The show was a response to my fascination with eschatology, Christian eschatology to be more specific due to my personal beliefs.

This truth is embodied in our biology, our interpersonal relationships, and Christian eschatology.

In the course of the rethinking of primitive Christian eschatology which this entailed, and as a part of his own distinctive eschatology, he develops the conception of the death of a Christian as a kind of individual experience of the parousia, (We are here indebted to C. K. Barrett, «Stephen and the Son of Man», in Apophoreta.

He ends with three articles that touch on Christian eschatology.

The present study is too brief to permit any proper analysis, but we may say that Christian eschatology, understood in this sense, is the product of a marriage of ideas found in Jewish thought, including the inter-testamental period, and the hellenistic soul - body portrayal of man.

Since I myself was taught this scheme, many years ago, I shall outline what I was taught, under the heading used in those days, of «Christian Eschatology: Death, Judgement, the Intermediate State, Heaven, and Hell».

Though Shi'a Islam and Christianity both have eschatological visions, and this opens an avenue for dialogue between Iranian Shi'as and North American Christians, one difference between Shi'a and Christian eschatology is the central role of Shari'a law in Mahdism.

If Isaiah's Messianism has an eschatological flavor, that is, if it anticipates a growing concern in subsequent centuries with the «last things,» we may remark that this is, for Isaiah, the goal of history; that Isaiah may indeed be the father of Jewish and Christian eschatology; but that for Isaiah it is a «natural» and consistent development of a very real covenant history.

Theology of Hope, On the Ground and the Implication of a Christian Eschatology (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 29.

• Christian eschatology speaks of «the things that must soon take place» (Rev. 22:6).

And inasmuch as any basic Christian affirmation is molded to the vital energies which work upon it in any nation or country, it ought to be possible to gain insight into the fact that classical Christian eschatology is interpreted in present American life in a peculiar way.

The promised fullness is a key element in Christian eschatology.

That, in my view, is the only way to preserve the paradox or skandalon of Christian eschatology, which asserts that the eschaton has actually entered history.

As Christianity became more divorced from her Jewish origins and more immersed in the Hellenistic culture of the Gentile world, the Jewish - cum - Christian eschatology, involving a future resurrection of the dead, was bound to be severely challenged — and this for two reasons.

John Macquarrie has noted that «much of the traditional Christian eschatology, whether conceived as the cosmic drama of the indefinite future or as the future bliss of the individual after death, has rightly deserved the censures of Marxists and Freudians who have seen in it the flight from the realities of present existence».10

Christian eschatology speaks of Jesus Christ and his future.

The quest for an adequate Christian eschatology has too often become narrowed down to the concern for personal immortality.

The renewed study of the Bible initiated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries led to the discovery that many elements of the traditional Christian eschatology were not clearly to be found there.

«The Day of Resurrection» is treated largely as a synonym for «The Day of Judgment» and the resurrection idiom seems to have been used mainly because it was part of the Jewish and Christian eschatology from which it was borrowed.

In my dialogues with Third World Christians, I have sought to use the creative aspects of the black Christian eschatology in order to help us to see beyond what is present to the future that is coming.

Christian eschatology, he answers, has a similar playful focus, i.e., it must be viewed as «totally without purpose, as a hymn of praise for unending joy, as an ever varying round dance of the redeemed in the trinitarian fullness of God, and as the complete harmony of soul and body.»

Christian eschatology and Incarnation now are seen to mean a total affirmation of the world, a total identification of the sacred with historical reality.

In other words, Christian eschatology must be painted like creation in «the colors of aesthetic categories.»

Jürgen Moltmann, The Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology, trans.

Jews must be assured by Christians that they are more than pawns in Christian eschatologies illicitly extracted from Ezekiel or the Book of Revelation.

Not exact matches

The Christian understanding of marriage rests upon a whole complex of other doctrines, from creation to Christology to anthropology to eschatology.

Eschatology — the study of the second coming and the end times — became a hot Christian topic.

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.

For my own part, I can not imagine how di - polar theology could be genuinely Christian so long as it places christology and eschatology at the periphery of faith and understanding, nor can I see how it could ever gain real relevance or power so long as it continues to be unable either to address us or to speak in terms of the imagination.

His program of a thoroughgoing interpretation of the Christian message under the rubrics of history and eschatology looked like another interpretive tour de force, another exercise in killing the Oedipal father (or fathers, in the form of Barth and Bultmann) so that the children are free to pursue their own projects.

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

Needless to say, Christian Reconstructionism upsets many premillennialist and dispensationalist Christians with its eschatology.

Historian Perry Miller, in Errand into the Wilderness (Harvard University Press, 1956), argues that the belief in impending world destruction has been paramount in the Christian West, and that Newtonian physics provoked a serious crisis by challenging that belief, Newton himself researched the Book of Revelation in hopes of restoring that eschatology.

Of course in the Christian sense Buddhism has no genuine eschatology.

Questions of eschatology in Christian theology quickly become questions of protology, and so we must ask how this picture of a beatific vision absent nonhuman life affects how we are to think of creation in the first place.

I would add only that, in addition to protology and eschatology, this issue also touches upon the question of the Christian understanding of the soul, and of the soul's relation to the whole of creation.

It is a merit of political theologians to have restored eschatology to the heart of Christian theology.

How would I begin my lecture on eschatology when the resident computer expert had just summarized the essence of Christian hope?

Recent pop eschatology novels feature Christians being whisked to the ease of heavenly bleachers as spectators of global suffering.

In Paul's eschatology, Christians living at the Lord's return will be swept up in Christ and the dead in fact will be the first to participate in the grand trumpet - call summons to resurrection.

In my opinion, the only possible approach for a Christian theologian in dealing with the presence of evil is that of Thomas Aquinas, who holds, pace David Hume, that an omnipotent and benevolent God can coexist with evil in His finite creation, but only when the world is viewed both as a totality and under the aegis of eschatology.

The «realized eschatology» of John represents only one of the attempts being made by Christians at the end of the first century to wrestle in a new setting with the heritage of the primitive Jewish hope in the imminent resurrection of the dead.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

First of all, let us note that even many very conservative Christians recognize that alongside the predictions of a cataclysmic future in biblical eschatology, there is a strong element of what has been called, in C. H. Dodd's classic phrase, «realized eschatology.»

Christian protology / eschatology is more properly a cosmogony, i.e., an explanation of the origin and purpose of the world system, which must, in the nature of the case, come from beyond the system if it exists at all.

Eschatology and politics in the Christian faith both begin with the Incarnation of Christ.

Thus Whiteheadian process - relational philosophy has yielded an impressive harvest of theological speculation in the doctrinal areas of God, God's action in the world, Christology and, most recently, soteriology.1 Can process - relational thought function similarly in the area of Christian doctrine called «eschatology»?

On John 5: 28, 29, see R. H. Charles: Eschatology; Hebrew, Jewish and Christian, pp. 370 - 372) Moreover, in the Johannine thought of the future there doubtless is a consummation in time by which the quality of spirit constituting life eternal will be crowned.

See R.H. Charles: Eschatology; Hebrew, Jewish and Christian, p. 261) Thus from clever juggling with figures and texts came the literal significance of the famous Jewish - Christian millennium, which the Book of Revelation includes in its drama of the future.

A previously unknown work of obvious apostolic origin detailed the necessary beliefs of all Christians in the categories of Scripture, God, Man, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Salvation, Church, and Eschatology.