Sentences with phrase «eschatology means»

Eschatology means literally the «last things».

And not that our age is eschatological: eschatology means the discourse, reason, science, the logos of last things, and all that....

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It is an adventurous work of theological speculation on creation «out of nothing,» the Church and her sacraments, and the meaning of eschatology, including an imaginatively orthodox (and Orthodox) treatment of whether all, including the evil angels, will at last be redeemed.

Hans Conzelmann has united these various lines of development into a unified view of Jesus» eschatology and his person, in which christology replaces chronology as the basic meaning of Jesus» message: the kingdom which Jesus proclaims is future, but the «interim» is of no positive significance to him.

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

Rather, the person and power of Jesus allow us to come boldly to the throne of grace through our prayers, are the focus of our worship, are a model for how we live, are the means by which we face the tragedies and turmoil all about us, and inform our eschatology.

It articulates an anthropology (to be human means to define oneself), an ethics (maintaining difference arbitrarily is wrong), and an eschatology (the progress of history).

This may mean what through the influence of Professor C. H. Dodd has come to be called realized eschatology, the belief that Jesus had brought the Kingdom to fulfillment in his own person and he was thereby affirming his messiahship.4 It seems to me more probable that Jesus meant primarily though perhaps not solely to declare the possibility of entrance into the Kingdom here and now by repentance, the acceptance of God's forgiveness, and the assumption of the obligations of discipleship.

There now follow, as in Mark, stories of the miracles of Jesus, accompanied by discourses which explain their meaning in the light of the Johannine «sublimated eschatology.»

One may need to look up words not used in ordinary conversation to understand what Berger means when he writes: «the problem of theodicy was solved in terms of eschatology» or «one should not confuse epistemology (i.e., knowledge) with historical gratitude.»

With this survey of variant views in the meaning of the kingdom of God as a base of procedure, let us review the types of eschatology that were outlined in the preceding chapter.

When we come to the `' realized eschatology» of C. H. Dodd, we find its chief grounding in the first meaning of the kingdom.

Indeed, eschatology is not at all concerned with the meaning and goal of secular history, for secular history belongs to the old aeon, and therefore can have neither meaning nor goal.

The implicit eschatology of the Kingdom in the New Testament centers in the transformation of the old covenant into the new; in fact, the very words «New Testament» mean «New Covenant.»

To give an example from a matter that will concern us later, the eschatology of Jesus demands that we wrestle with the problem of the meaning of the element of futurity in the hope of first - century Judaism, and at the same time that we do justice to the new element in the teaching of Jesus in this regard.

It may well be true that the whole meaning of eschatology is for us fulfilled in the revelation in Christ — that is, in the active presence in Christ as known within the church — of the eternal order, the kingdom of God: the Fourth Gospel has some such conception.

I rejected a moment ago Dodd's view that for Jesus the whole meaning of eschatology was fulfilled in the revelation of the sovereign righteousness of God which was taking place in him; I find it impossible to deny the element of the temporal in Jesus» thought about the judgment and the kingdom.

A crucial, though by no means isolated, example of this inadequacy clusters around his understandings of evil, history and eschatology.

When eschatologies stress discontinuity, they often legitimate efforts to bring about that future by violent means.

If all this be true, we must tread very warily in attempting to recover the existential meaning behind the eschatology of the New Testament.

What does he mean by «eschatology» and «history»?

In Christian theology, the term «eschatology» formerly meant a study of the «last things,» i.e. death and life beyond death.

If we speak more narrowly of covenant eschatology, we mean the description of covenant fulfillment beyond the present or impending apparent frustration of covenant purpose and covenant ends.

What do we mean by eschatology?