Sentences with phrase «christian eschaton»
The recent and dramatic rise of modern Gnosticism, implemented in part, by the capture of the vocabulary of reality, is merely the continuation of the effort, identified by Eric Voegelin, to form a Western civil theology by immanentizing the Christian eschaton.
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Even Eliot noted that a wholly Christian society this side of the eschaton «would require constant reform.»
4:3 - 9, etc.), but in relation to the eschaton, faith is the experience of fear, of doubt and of absence, for, precisely, the Christian walks by faith, not by vision (2 Cor 5:7).
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.
In the earlier phases of the movement the attack was still disguised as Christian «spiritualization» or «reform»; in the later phases, with the more radical immanentization of the eschaton, it became openly anti-Christian.
It is now acknowledged that much of the New Testament was written within a context of apocalyptic or eschatological thought, in which the early Christian movement looked towards the imminent end (eschaton) of the present age and the breaking in of the new age (the Kingdom of God).