Sentences with phrase «apocalyptic writings»

Wright sees her new works as a sincere but satirical examination into such apocalyptic writings, focusing too on the protagonists behind such renditions.

Two influences especially confirmed the early Christians in their error, their study of the Old Testament and the apocalyptic writings, and the rise of Christian prophecy.

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.

Like the apocalyptic writings of New Testament times, it has stretched the imagination and inspired great confidence in the future.

The imperial powers of Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome are regarded as powers of darkness and chaos in the Biblical literature, especially in the Apocalyptic writings.

(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» lifetime:

However limited the effect of such ideas on the apocalyptic writings, their importance was very great.

(E.g., I thessalonians 4:14 - 17) Some of the conflicts already noted in the confused apocalyptic writings of the Jews reappear in the New Testament.

Ever since the publication of Johannes Weiss's Die Predigt Jesu corn Reich Gottes in 1892, a growing number of New Testament scholars have seen Jesus as a «thorough - going eschatologist» (Albert Schweitzer's term), deeply influenced by Jewish apocalyptic writings.

The result is, as E. F. Scott says, that the atmosphere of the prophetic writings is vivid, concrete, historical, while the atmosphere of the apocalyptic writings is abstract, rarefied, symbolic and remote from everyday life.

Apocalyptic writings spring up among people for whom the realities of this world have become unbearable.

Any passage from the prophets or apocalyptic writings can be used by dispensationalists as if it were speaking about the millennial reign of Christ.

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.

The problem becomes even more complex when we turn to a special genre of literature, apocalyptic writings.

If the power as well as the presence of God has been seen to be missing from the ongoing historical drama in the apocalyptic writings, there is now a concentration on this reclaimed power and presence in a strikingly novel way.

Not exact matches

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story (Revelations) and other materials that found their way into the Bible, in that they are largely indistinguishable from the other mythology and religious writings of the Greco - Roman Mediterranean.

In Paul's own writings this universalism becomes explicit if the once rabidly exclusivistic Paul was moved by the work of Christ to anticipate elements of rationalistic liberalism in his apologetics and universalism, Peter was driven to «remythologize» apocalyptic Judaism.

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 crank.

Without specific use of the term «Son of man,» an apocalyptic coming of the day of the Lord is indicated elsewhere in the Old Testament as well as in the intertestamental writings.

That means that it rejects the apocalyptic themes in some Biblical writings or reinterprets them in prophetic form.

For some time now many scientists, even and perhaps especially those connected to the climate alarmism movement, have worried about the exaggerations and downright apocalyptic scenarios which have come out of the writings of some of their scientific colleagues like James Hansen or James Lovelock,....

Aside from the apocalyptic sections of the Old Testment there were other later, but well - known, Jewish apocalypses among the so - called False Writings or Pseudepigrapha.

It includes key essays by the curators Christine van Assche, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou, Paris, writer and film critic Chris Darke, and Whitechapel Gallery curators Magnus Af Petersens (Chief Curator) and Habda Rashid (Assistant Curator); texts by critics Raymond Bellour and Arnaud Lambert; plus the first English translations of two key early writings by Marker, an essay on Jean Cocteau's film Orphée (1950) and his short story Till the End of Time (1947), which takes place the day after VJ day amidst a torrential rainstorm and features a demobilised soldier subject to apocalyptic visions, anticipating Marker's most famous film, La Jetée (1962).