Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic expectations»

From apocalyptic expectations in our present environmental, financial and political climate, this «threat» of proximity signifies the potential collision that reflects our changing ideology of past modernity, concerns and images.

As this nearness was experienced in all of its power and poignancy, it was natural to assume, given the apocalyptic expectations of the day, that the long awaited kingdom of God was also chronologically near as well.

Within this general framework the apocalyptic expectations are variously phrased.

This attitude survived long after the passing of apocalyptic expectations and has not yet been surrendered.

In Augustine's long and influential treatment of apocalyptic expectations in The City of God, he «rejects the two most common options: neither say soon, for it can lead to disappointment and loss of faith; nor say later, for it discourages the faithful.

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.

It is the writer's view that Jesus did hold to some aspects of the apocalyptic expectations of his time and may have thought of himself as the heavenly being sent by God to usher in a new order.

Was Jesus caught up in the apocalyptic expectations of his day and spoke accordingly?

One of the most important steps in the development of primitive Christian doctrine, and by far the most important for the tradition embodied in Mark and the Synoptics, took place when Jesus was identified with this celestial figure of apocalyptic expectation.

It is difficult to see, however, how the apocalyptic expectation can be justified without a type of belief in God which seems alien to Metz.

Apocalyptic expectation has been used to sustain a hold over people, and to validate accommodation with the present empires of human society.

Pannenberg claims that this can only be found in the apocalyptic expectation of a general resurrection, but I wish to propose an alternative to accomplish the same purpose.

Process theism can not share this apocalyptic expectation because it sees the future as organically growing out of its past.

I agree with Kaufman that the emergence of this community embodies the reality of the resurrection here on earth, and that the apocalyptic expectation must be discarded.

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.

With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.

This manifestation of divine power signifies the nearness of the kingdom, which in the apocalyptic expectation Jesus shared might be imagined to be casting its shadows before it, if not already breaking into their midst.

Contemporary or nearly contemporary chronicles of the period describe the people of Western Europe as living in an agony of apocalyptic expectation.

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 come,

Not exact matches

The very form of Christianity's original apocalyptic proclamation rests upon an expectation that the actualization of the Kingdom of God will make present not the almighty Creator, Lawgiver, and Judge, but rather a wholly new epiphany of the deity, an epiphany annihilating all that distance separating the creature from the Creator.

In 17.20 f. the general apocalyptic - type expectation is denied, but this is followed by a reiteration of the traditional Christian hope in the form of waiting for an End, the coming of which can not be prognosticated, vv.

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

Mark Allan Powell has suggested that biblical critics have mined the apocalyptic by fixing it in a context of long ago and thus «depriving everyday Christians of the heartfelt expectation of their Lord's return,» I feel the opposite: it's because the biblical scenarios speak to a situation long ago that they provide bearings for my life now.

So vivid and obsessing did the expectation of an imminent Messianic age become, and so did the imagination of judgment day with its awards fill the popular mind, that the solution of the problem of life's injustice was seen mainly through apocalyptic hopes.

Apocalyptic withdrawal was corrected by rejecting immediate expectation of the end (21:8 b; Acts 1:6 - 7) and by substituting mission in the power of the Spirit for idle curiosity as to the time of the end (Acts 1:7 - 8).

This development began long before apocalyptic hopes were dreamed of; it passed through days when they were a ruling category in Christian thinking to later days when in wide areas of the church the old Jewish forms of expectation were sublimated, spiritualized, and explained away.

He thus transforms the apocalyptic tension which accompanied the expectation of the Messiah into the «hallowing of the everyday,» and he loses none of the force of this tension in so doing.

By virtue of being canonized in Holy Scripture, the many pieces of apocalyptic writing in the New Testament, including the Apocalypse of John, have become permanently associated with the cardinal Christian doctrine of the expectation of the Second Coming of Christ, as expressed in the Creed: «He shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead and his kingdom shall have no end.»

As far as I know the apocalyptic language and expectation of the early Church was not in error (perhaps some of our modern understandings are incorrect).

Thus apocalyptic imagery came to characterize increasingly the expectations, until at length the sun was supposed to be darkened and the moon turned to blood before the great and terrible Day of the Lord.

The regular apocalyptic type expectation of Mark 13 and its parallels is from early Christian apocalyptic; the expectation of the «parousia» is a Matthaean development from the apocalyptic Son of man tradition; and the apocalyptic Son of man tradition has itself developed from an early Christian interpretation of the resurrection and early Christian passion apologetic.

Verse 29 has clearly been added to make the parable serviceable in terms of early Christian apocalyptic, the «he is near» referring to the type of expectation found in I Thess.

7.13 in connection with eschatological expectation does not end with the apocalyptic literature, but continues into the talmudic and midrashic tradition, where it is also used in connection with the Messiah.

ii 15 concerned with the same kind of expectation as the apocalyptic and rabbinic passages, but there are some striking differences.

The author discusses the Kingdom of God as a future expectation, the apocalyptic Son of man sayings, and the sayings which set a time limit to the coming of the End.

Further, the Jewish apocalyptic texts would then have had to lose all trace of this form of the conception, for in no other such text does the Son of man «come with the clouds», except for this one instance preserved by Christians, and, finally, the Christian tradition would have had to be indebted to this one Jewish saying for the features most characteristic of the specifically Christian expectation.