Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic imagery»

Moltmann, on the other hand, makes use of apocalyptic imagery alongside of the prophetic.

But he explains it by saying that Jesus used apocalyptic imagery «as a series of symbols standing for realities which the human mind can not directly apprehend, and as such capable of various interpretation and re-interpretation as the lessons of history or a deepening understanding of the ways of God demand.»

Just as the Old Testament contains a full - blown apocalypse in the book of Daniel, so the New Testament contains a full - blown apocalypse in the Revelation to John.1 In it the hope that sustained the church as a subversively different community is expressed in full - blown apocalyptic imagery.

Yet it contains apocalyptic imagery as well.

Jesus» proclamation of the coming kingdom of God was open - ended, although clothed in the specific apocalyptic imagery of the day.

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.

This need to transcend the trappings of apocalyptic imagery goes beyond the need for a different kind of discourse: we need a different kind of mapping to understand what's going on.

The details of apocalyptic imagery are transitory (here is the germ of «demythologizing»), and wishful thinking about the world to come is valueless, even harmful; but the eschatological message, «The kingdom of God is at hand,» «among you» not «within you,» is relevant to any age, including our own.

It is significant that in the book of Revelation (a book Whitehead did not like because of its bloody and apocalyptic imagery), the vision of a new heavenly city at the end of time has the divine light shine so that the nations walk by it, and the «kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it» (Revelation 21: 22ff.).

Jesus, then, was not announcing a future event when he used the apocalyptic imagery, but symbolized by it the coming of the kingdom in himself.

But does this mean that we must accept his apocalyptic imagery to find value in the parables?

The biblical writers were fallible persons like ourselves and could have made mistakes, the more probably because current Jewish thought was full of apocalyptic imagery.

And sue me if I was a little bummed at a certain caution on the part of Hollywood to offer up the apocalyptic imagery it had serviced to the masses in the action - packed summers of the 1990s following 9/11.

Kandinsky traces the artist's vision through thematic motifs such as the horse and rider, mountainous landscapes, tumultuous seascapes, apocalyptic imagery and other religious subjects.