Sentences with phrase «become apocalyptic»

The normal eschatological situation, which gives life urgency by facing us with the inevitability of our own death, the hunger for meaning, and the fear of suffering and loss, becomes apocalyptic when it appears that there is no longer time for normal urgency.

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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.

The conservative opposition found the passion of his condom advocacy not only thoroughly objectionable but medically unsound; his apocalyptic predictions regarding the spread of AIDS (by 1999, he claimed, one out of every four people around the globe would have the virus) became increasingly tedious and incrementally unbelievable.

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.

The eschatology of Jewish apocalyptic and of Gnosticism has been emancipated from its accompanying mythology, in so far as the age of salvation has already dawned for the believer and the life of the future has become a present reality.

Satan must become totally and comprehensively present in his apocalyptic form as the lifeless residue of the self - negation of God before the atonement will have become wholly actualized in history; and then, the radical apocalyptic seer assures us, Satan must undergo a final metamorphosis into an eschatological epiphany of Christ.

When the reality of God is eschatologically identified with his dawning Kingdom, then God can be known only as an active and apocalyptic process that even now is becoming all in all.

The difficulty with the «Lo, here» «Lo, there», reference is that it has both been translated from Aramaic and also become part of the stock in trade of early Christian apocalyptic (Mark 13.21 par.)

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Naturally enough, with the rise of apocalyptic, the hope for God's ultimate forgiveness becomes the hope for God's eschatological forgiveness, and with the rise of Messianism, it becomes the hope for messianic forgiveness: In Pesikta 149a, the Messiah comes «with grace and pardon (slyhh) on his lips.»

The most striking instance of the concrete new taken into an apocalyptic story so that it becomes the peripety or surprise in the plot would be the adaptation of the apocalyptic story by the early Christians to the new which they saw in Christ.

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

If we can free ourselves from the dominant sense of endless time and recover the apocalyptic vision, then the New Testament experience of hope can become real for us.

Apocalyptic consciousness... calls the timeless understanding of time that has become so firmly established in theology into question.

This is a subject or self - consciousness which becomes deeply reborn in early modernity, thence being renewed in a uniquely modern apocalyptic thinking, only to be absolutely negated in Nietzsche's apocalyptic dissolution of the «I,» an «I» which he could know as the creation of ressentiment.

That world can be understood as a new apocalyptic world, one which becomes manifestly apocalyptic in the French Revolution and German Idealism, and then one realizing truly universal expressions in Marxism and in that uniquely modern or postmodern nihilism which was so decisively inaugurated by Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God.

The period we are studying offered ample opportunity for this, and there is an element of it in the apocalyptic writing that became so popular.

When the reality of God is eschatologically identified with his dawning Kingdom, then God can be known only as an active and apocalyptic process that even now is becoming all in all... This is precisely the function of a poetic apocalypse.

In apocalyptic the revolt has reached heaven, and the Devil, Satan, Antichrist has become a personal power, disputing the dominion of the world with God.

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

The apocalyptic bent of Jesus becomes more evident when we look among his teachings for promises of peace.

This hip, modern spin on the apocalyptic has become a surrogate religion, making me want to have nothing to do with things apocalyptic.

It was the view commonly held in Jesus» day, the Pharisees believing in such a resurrection and the Sadducees rejecting it, and against this background the apocalyptic passages in Mark 13 and Matthew 25 become easier to understand.

So vivid and obsessing did the expectation of an imminent Messianic age become, and so did the imagination of judgment day with its awards fill the popular mind, that the solution of the problem of life's injustice was seen mainly through apocalyptic hopes.

As God's immanence in man continues to evolve toward a final apocalyptic goal of the complete identification of everything, so that God eventually will be all in all, the memory of the transcendent God becomes ever more distant and alien.

It is to be remarked that when, at last, the way was open for Christians to become potently effective in the affairs of state and society, not all the apocalyptic ideas in their scriptures or in their current thinking prevented their acceptance of the responsibility.

That does not mean the Mayans had an apocalyptic prediction of the world ending, just a calendar that would become obsolete and would need to be replaced.

Aslan's Jesus becomes one of many apocalyptic preachers in first century Judea, fomenting Jewish rebellion against the Roman overlords.

By virtue of being canonized in Holy Scripture, the many pieces of apocalyptic writing in the New Testament, including the Apocalypse of John, have become permanently associated with the cardinal Christian doctrine of the expectation of the Second Coming of Christ, as expressed in the Creed: «He shall come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead and his kingdom shall have no end.»

The consistent biblical teaching, which becomes most explicit in the apocalyptic literature, is that the future is ultimately God's future.

Finally, (4) the parousia tradition in Mark 13.26 shows signs of developing away from the exegetical tradition which gave it birth and moving towards becoming an independent Christian apocalyptic tradition.

According to Dr. Altizer, «Ahab's mad quest for the white whale can be seen as faith's response to the death of God, wherein the man of faith becomes the murderer of God so as to make possible a historical actualization of God's death in Jesus, and thus an apocalyptic consummation of God's original self - sacrifice or self - negation.»

7.14, as our seer understands it, he can assume the role of apocalyptic judge; indeed, this becomes his major role.

Thus man now finds himself in the process of moving dialectically toward an eschatological point, where Spirit and flesh become united in an apocalyptic coincidence of opposites.

Written quite late, probably not far from the Maccabean period of revolt, it couches its hopes in a queer figurative language which becomes the earmark of apocalyptic writing.

Then Oladipo bolted through the door, becoming an All - NBA caliber talent out of nowhere and putting Indiana's apocalyptic predictions to rest.

New York became the epicenter of the national debate in a fast - moving week rife with broadsides and apocalyptic overtones.

Thomas Wilkins wrote in to suggest that antibiotics becoming ineffective would not be an apocalyptic threat, since we have innate...

As the plutonium pits decay and the old security structures collapse, the apocalyptic potential inherent in the metal becomes more immediate and terrifying, and the illusion that we are its master becomes ever harder to sustain.

A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he is chosen as the «Kirin Rider» and must lead Japan's ancient Yokai spirits in their apocalyptic war against the evil monsters.

Anonymous hotel rooms and the myriad awkward social contracts we perform daily with strangers become the grist for intimate, whisper - quiet apocalyptic storytelling.

I mean, Hawai'i and Alaska seem to do okay and aren't cut off to become post apocalyptic warzones.

Johnny, the apocalyptic British motor mouth at the center of Mike Leigh's «Naked,» could become a postpunk prophet for the 1990s.

This startling documentary explores a part of America few even want to admit exists: a place designed as a paradise that has instead become an almost apocalyptic wasteland populated by people who have fallen out...

Initially oblivious to what is happening in the outside world (with the exception of Rogen and Baruchel who briefly exit the party), it some becomes clear to everyone that an apocalyptic disaster is happening before their very eyes.

Natalie Dormer, who plays a fellow tribute in the apocalyptic drama, recently said the actress and the rest of the cast and crew have become like «family».

Laughing at the apocalyptic situation is fairly easy in the hands of Goldberg and Rogen, but it becomes difficult when they want the audience to care.

Although the game starts in Tokyo, your world is soon turned into turmoil when you find the hospital that once cared for your teacher deserted and you become drawn into the apocalyptic Conception, an event which is surrounded in occult prophecy about the rebirth of the world.

On 7 May 2011 something apocalyptic happened in popular culture — Michael Bolton became really cool.

In this low - budget yet thrilling early feature from David Cronenberg that combines apocalyptic mayhem with a social statement about the sexual promiscuity of the»70s, a mad doctor creates a slug - like parasite that's a combination aphrodisiac and venereal disease and releases it on the residents of a Canadian high - rise, causing them to become violent and, um, «in the mood.»