Sentences with phrase «jewish apocalypticism»

The fact that there are such passages in the New Testament, drawn from Jewish apocalypticism and attributed to Jesus, does not prove that he said them or that he could have believed this to be an appropriate fate.

Even the accent of immediacy is in Jesus» words about the coming Messiah, (Matthew 16:27 - 28) and alike in direct statement and in parable his reported teaching shows the influence of the prevalent Jewish apocalypticism.

The one unifying factor that put sense into the strange and varied developments of Jewish apocalypticism was the urgent demand of the Jewish conscience that, one way or another, the cosmic process should not in the end be ethically unsatisfactory.

In Jesus» own recorded words, this emphasis appears in the spiritual nature and present accessibility of the kingdom of God an emphasis that, in view of the postponed hopes of Jewish apocalypticism, is very significant.

It is a principle component of the eschatological projection of a new heaven and a new earth that originated in the millennialism of Jewish apocalypticism, and it seems to have made its earliest appearance in the Apocalypse of Isaiah (Isaiah 24 — 2 7), specifically in Isaiah 26:29.

Commenting on this same text, Gordon D. Kaufman remarks: «If, now, we bring a different framework of interpretation from Jewish apocalypticism to this critical event in which Christian faith was born — as we must — we should not be overly surprised or dismayed when we find it necessary to understand the character of the event somewhat differently from the first Christians.»

Now even as ancient Jewish apocalypticism profoundly challenged the orthodox guardians of the Torah, a challenge which is profoundly renewed in Paul, modern apocalypticism profoundly challenges Christian orthodoxy.

It developed organically, (as now PROVEN by the Dead Sea Scrolls), from Jewish Apocalypticism.

Similarly, in some forms of Jewish apocalypticism, the tension between the felt injustice of history and faith in the God who was Creator and Lord of history reached an extreme pitch.

The world - rejecting elements in Christianity are adequately explained by Jewish apocalypticism, and this, despite its enmity toward the present world, stopped short of and opposed the dissolution of moral order.

Not exact matches

He continues the story by examining the period of the second temple in Jewish thought, the rise of apocalypticism and millenarianism, sectarian life in New Testament times, New Testament views of afterlife, pseudepigraphic literature, the Church fathers, the early rabbis, and Muslim views of the afterlife..