Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic view of history»

This is confirmed by the fact that the major parables of Jesus «do not reflect an apocalyptic view of history.»

Right - wing higher law ideas are more likely to produce confrontational outcomes precisely because they are linked to a millenarian - apocalyptic view of history.

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A significant element in the background to the Gospel accounts of Jesus is the tradition of apocalyptic literature in which God has come to be viewed as temporarily absent from the current flow of history.

The kingdom, therefore, is not to be viewed either as an apocalyptic breakthrough from another world to put an end to this one or as the goal of a long - continued social process within earthly history.