Sentences with phrase «apocalypticism gave»

The shift from a prophecy to apocalypticism gave an important stimulus toward views of divine determinism.

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This is that Jesus was heavily indebted to his past, but was no copyist of it; that he spoke as an apocalyptist, but that his apocalypticism was probably distorted and exaggerated in the records of the Synoptics; more important, that he had a prophetic sense of mission as God's suffering servant and agent of redemption; that he deeply respected the law of his fathers, but gave it a new depth of meaning in self - giving love.

His apocalypticism is suffused with the spirit of God and given a moral character, as was everything he touched.