Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic books of»

So, do you want to study and teach Daniel and other apocalyptic books of the Bible?

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

The apocalyptic book of Enoch also says that the Son of man will sit on his glorious throne to judge the world (Enoch 62:3, 5).

Jesus's Messianic consciousness was probably influenced by the apocalyptic Book of Enoch, in which the form, but not the person, of the servant has pre-existence, and by the events of the end which may have led Jesus to step out of the concealment of the «quiver» and imagine himself, after the vision of Daniel, as in his own person the one who will be removed and afterwards sent again to the office of fulfillment.

Not exact matches

In the apocalyptic developments reflected in the books of Ezekiel, Joel, and Daniel, the judgment takes shape as a great battle in which Yahweh will rescue his people from the hands of the powerful empires which have held them in bondage.

The most typical example of apocalyptic writing in the Old Testament is to be found in the Book of Daniel.

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

Alongside these whispers and shouts from the psalmist are the apocalyptic choruses from Daniel and the Book of Revelation.

An extreme example is to be found in the exploitation of the more obscure «apocalyptic» writings» such as the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crBook of Daniel in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crbook of Revelation in the New, which became the licensed playground of every crank.

Similarly the Book of Daniel, written in the second century B.C., represents a type of Judaism in which new apocalyptic hopes were blended with the old devotion to temple and sacrifice.

I recently read an excellent book on how to study and teach these apocalyptic sections of the Bible.

This is partly because these books are two of the «Apocalyptic» books in the Bible.

I say this because the Taylor uses the book of Daniel to provide practical examples of how to read and teach Apocalyptic Literature.

In the book of Revelation, as we would expect, we have the regular idioms of Jewish apocalyptic: 11.17 has God as the subject of the verb «to reign»; 11.15 is a summary allusion to the imagery of Dan.

Dear Rev Blair you are not much better than Rev Camping (who you criticize) with all of your fear mongering of hell and torcher; then you have the nerve to be selling a book for profit about apocalyptic doomsday perdictions.

This book is more than a collection of apocalyptic horror stories; it is in the authors» characterization a «can - do» book: a book about what you [meaning all of us] tan do to help restore the work ethic.»

That book, along with The Gospel of Christian Atheism (Westminster, 1966), should make it clear that for Altizer the death of God is a Christian and apocalyptic event.

angel, open, number, lamb, star, book, thunder, dragon (snake), seven, animal, beast, throne, horse, smoke, white, great, repent, temple, conquer, like, wear (clothing), blow («plague»), gate, fire, blow (trumpet), mouth, seal, four, third, vial, voice, thousand, and gold — all of them characteristic of apocalyptic - symbolic writing.

I was talking to these churchmen about apocalyptic and I did this liberal arts, comparative, secular review of the Book of Daniel, the Book of the Apocalypse, and he was wrong and these people and Montanus, they were wrong, on and on and on and on; four days of listening to these wrong prophecies that described the history of Christian apocalypticism.

Leahy is a deeply contemporary and a deeply Catholic thinker, and his first book, Novitas Mundi (1980), intends to be a revolutionary breakthrough to an absolutely new thinking, and while conceptually enacting the history of Being from Aristotle through Heidegger, at bottom this book is an apocalyptic calling forth and celebration of the absolute beginning now occurring of transcendent existence in pure thinking itself.

But from the frequency with which he calls himself the Son of man, he may have used this term, not solely as referring to his own humanity, as at some points seems its natural interpretation, but with the apocalyptic connotation it has in Daniel 7:13 - 14 and in the intertestamental Book of Enoch.3

The position which has been defended in this book is that Jesus was influenced by the apocalyptic expectations of his time and probably did speak some such words as these, expecting an imminent day of the Lord which did not occur.

They are reading the book of Revelation, from chapter 19, verse 11, to the end of chapter 20, a sequence of apocalyptic visions, as if they were prophecies.

Adela Yarbro Collins summarizes the results of more recent study of apocalyptic writings in general and of Revelation in particular in» Reading the Book of Revelation in the Twentieth Century,» Interpretation 40 (1986): 229 - 242.

As a piece of apocalyptic literature it takes its place naturally in the series which begins with the Book of Daniel, and includes such works as the Book of Enoch, the Assumption of Moses, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and 2 Esdras.

Normally, with the single exception of our own NT Apocalypse, all apocalyptic books are pseudonymous.

We often think of the Revelation as a quite unique book with nothing else like it; but it is of the first importance to remember that in fact the Revelation is the one representative in the NT of a type of literature called apocalyptic literature which was very common between the Testaments and in NT times.

Unlike many studies of Judaism, the book is organized not by categories of literature (apocalyptic, rabbinic, mystical, etc.), but by the practices associated with daily living, the Sabbath and the Jewish festivals.

Knowing things like the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, the ancient letter form, and the characteristics of apocalyptic literature would help us receive the books that biblical authors actually wrote.

At this point some of the worst crudities of apocalyptic Judaism passed over into New Testament passages, such as one finds in the Book of Revelation.

As the Book of Revelation is early Christianity cast in the mold of Jewish apocalyptic, so the Fourth Gospel is early Christianity trying to commend itself to the Hellenistic mind and, in order to do this, setting itself to supersede the literal dramatics of the Jewish hope.

(As quoted by J.T. Barclay: City of the Great King, p. 90) Hell itself, according to the teaching of the apocalyptic writings, was a great abyss full of fire, (The Book of Enoch 18:11 - 16) in the midst of the earth, and so vividly were its tortures imagined and the satisfaction of the righteous in the contemplation of them conceived that, according to Charles» understanding of the text, a notorious element in the later Christian doctrine of hell appears in a Jewish book, probably written during Jesus» lifetBook of Enoch 18:11 - 16) in the midst of the earth, and so vividly were its tortures imagined and the satisfaction of the righteous in the contemplation of them conceived that, according to Charles» understanding of the text, a notorious element in the later Christian doctrine of hell appears in a Jewish book, probably written during Jesus» lifetbook, probably written during Jesus» lifetime:

It is in this period, and notably in the «apocalyptic» literature beginning with the Book of Daniel, that the idea of personal immortality begins to play a significant part; and this in itself attests a new value attached to the individual.

And it is characteristic that whenever the apocalyptic expectation is centered in the «Son of Man,» there the poverty ethic is also emphasized — as we may see from the Book of Enoch.

Sales of Catholic books with apocalyptic themes pale in comparison.

Since the 1890s New Testament scholars have been rediscovering the importance of apocalyptic literature among Jews and Christians in the ancient world, represented in the books referred to as Apocalypses, which offer visions, revelations of the future, and other divine mysteries.

The writer of this strange apocalyptic book regarded the millennium as an interlude before the final cosmic battle — an interlude in which peace and joy reign supreme and all evil is completely, if temporarily, suppressed.

Because of these emphases, and also because later situations seemed to resemble that in which Daniel wrote, his book was influential both among apocalyptic - minded Jews (e.g., Enoch and Sibylline Oracles 3, 388 - 400) and among many early Christians.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

Apocalyptic writings like the Book of Enoch designated by this name the world Redeemer who was to come from heaven and who at the same time bore the outward semblance of a man.

C. H. Dodd, however, has argued that while details of the prediction in Mark are based on the book of Daniel, those in Luke are based on prophetic descriptions of the capture of Jerusalem in 586 BC.; the differences are due to variations in apocalyptic style, not necessarily to chronological considerations.

All these terms, Son of man, Messiah, Kingdom of God, had for his hearers a connection with the apocalyptic expectation of the time, based largely on the teaching of a number of current apocalyptic books, such as the Books of Daniel and Enoch, and exemplified in the teaching of John the Baptist that one mightier than he was about to books, such as the Books of Daniel and Enoch, and exemplified in the teaching of John the Baptist that one mightier than he was about to Books of Daniel and Enoch, and exemplified in the teaching of John the Baptist that one mightier than he was about to come,

Some 700 years after Josiah's murder, John of Patmos — the likeliest author of the New Testament's book of Revelation — predicted an apocalyptic battle for Earth that will roil the ancient tel. «How did he think of that?»

Apocalyptic visions, which are not the heart of either of these fine books but which both writers indulge in on occasion, are also unlikely to persuade skeptics.

▪ Watchmen, an apocalyptic graphic novel («a fancy way of saying it's a big comic book») that is due out as a movie in March

His book goes beyond the usual apocalyptic predictions of many publications grappling with the fin de siècle.

The book of Daniel is an apocalyptic of the Old Testament.

He described Days of Future Past as «X-Men meets The Terminator,» and continued, saying that for fans of the books, it's «no spoiler» to reveal that the First Class sequel will explore an apocalyptic future.