Sentences with phrase «between eschatology»

There is an important difference between the eschatology of the Old Testament and that of the New.

Not exact matches

This is not to say that Bornkamm has moved to the position of «realized eschatology» (91); rather he sees (with Bultmann) the tension between future and present as inherent in the involvement of the imperative in the indicative, i.e. inherent in the historical understanding of the self.

Now it is precisely at this point that we must acknowledge a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the worlds of Oriental mysticism and Biblical eschatology.

It is this tension between the alternating experiences of flight and the grim march which produces inevitably a prophetic eschatology.

In between the bookends of «Exodus» and «eschatology,» there is the «event» of the Sabbath observance itself.

There are difficulties indeed with the Biblical eschatology; but some of them arise precisely from the fact that the Biblical world view did not contemplate a distinction between two orders of time.

Cyberspace creates a fine line between science fiction and popular theology, especially eschatology.

Furthermore, in his «The Theology of Israel's Historical Traditions,» Gerhard von Rad invites us to redraw the dividing line between prophecy and eschatology: the message of the prophets must be considered eschatological in every case where it considers the old historical bases of salvation null and void.

Process thinker Francis G. Baur has suggested that the concept of «thresholds» of change beyond which a phenomenon is new in ways that transcend and fulfill its antecedents, but does not cease thereby to be in process towards other previously unimaginable dimensions of being, might mediate at this point between biblical eschatology and process - relational cosmology.6 After all, the eschaton is the completion of God's will for this cosmic epoch, but it is not implied in scripture that there is no life beyond eschaton.

The type of eschatology that maintains the tension between the present reality of the kingdom of God [Lk.

This is reminiscent of Brown's statement in Life Against Death that «competition between... [current psychoanalysis and current neo-orthodox Protestantism] to produce an eschatology for the twentieth century is the way to serve the life instinct and bring hope to distracted humanity» (p. 233).

Indeed, just like there are very different opinions about eschatology, soteriology, christology and more, there is also a large range of difference between the various Christians about what counts as a miracle and exactly what miracles are — not sure if there is a greek word for that «- ology».

Though Shi'a Islam and Christianity both have eschatological visions, and this opens an avenue for dialogue between Iranian Shi'as and North American Christians, one difference between Shi'a and Christian eschatology is the central role of Shari'a law in Mahdism.

Belief in the sovereignty of God over the Earth or in fatalistic eschatology narratives play a role, but overlap between religious and political identity is the strongest driver of evangelical doubt, he said.