Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic movements»

more seriously, apocalyptic end time theology is a dangerous game in a nuclear age... I guess if you sincerely believe that the end is near like some say of Jesus, Paul, etc., then the language is reasonable enuf, but from this distance and especially with what some notable scholars have been telling us about layered traditions in the N.T., and ancient apocalyptic movements, methinks a rethink is in order
If only through this perspective, we can know that the deepest movement of orthodox Christian thinking is a backward movement of return, a return to an absolutely primordial Godhead, a movement which is inevitably the reversal of an absolutely forward apocalyptic movement, so that the very victory of ancient Christian orthodoxy was inevitably the reversal of an original Christian apocalypticism.
These latter, in a far more secular age, lacked the supernatural elements of the earlier more apocalyptic movements (which reflected the mediaeval beliefs of the time), but they did have strong religious overtones.
And certainly this is in harmony with the entire apocalyptic movement and with most of the later political thought as it is expressed in the Old Testament.
And to illumine these ancient texts, Segal examines modern apocalyptic movements as well as contemporary literature on mystical experiences, near - death experiences and the like.
So I talk about the global warming... delusion and how it's gradually unwinding,» «It's like any other apocalyptic movement.
These things crest, and then they start to retreat, until the next apocalyptic movement comes along and gives us something to get all worried about.»
[19] Critical Biblical scholars and historians have offered competing descriptions of Jesus as a self - described Messiah, as the leader of an apocalyptic movement, as an itinerant sage, as a charismatic healer, and as the founder of an independent religious movement.»
[11][12][13][8] Scholars have offered competing descriptions and portraits of Jesus, which at times share a number of overlapping attributes, such as a rabbi, a charismatic healer, the leader of an apocalyptic movement, a self - described Messiah, a sage and philosopher, or a social reformer who preached of the «Kingdom of God» as a means for personal and egalitarian social transformation.
It is a theology purporting to be the expression of a radical Christian tradition — a tradition unknown to the world of Christian theology, because that world is irredeemably satanic insofar as it is bound to the dead body of that God negated and left behind by the forward and apocalyptic movement of the incarnation.
(CNN)- Harold Camping, the leader of the apocalyptic movement that predicted the end of the world would begin on May 21, has suffered a stroke, according to a statement on his ministry's web site on Tuesday.
As I have predicted, the life of Harold Camping, the leader of the apocalyptic movement, will end before his next predicted DOOMSDAY DATE (October 21, 2011).
The apocalyptic movement was the struggle of the people of God for the culture of life, against the culture of death, and this struggle created the culture of the Messianic Reign of life, justice and peace.
Jesus» movement has connections with the prophetic and apocalyptic movements; indeed, it is the culmination of the cultural movements of the people of God.
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