Sentences with phrase «by eschatological»

If, then, the heart of early Christian behaviour lies in the motivation given by love, within the community and outside it, we must ask to what extent this love is itself conditioned and perhaps relativized by the eschatological context of early Christian thought.

As for the reports of the «witnesses» during Jesus» lifetime, the stories told about him, the reports of his teaching, his sayings, parables, interpretations of the Law, controversies with the scribes, and the application of Old Testament laws and prophecies — all this was undoubtedly orientated and controlled by the eschatological outlook of his teaching and ministry as a whole, but also undoubtedly it lacked the sharpness of focus which the Resurrection was later to give it.

Gnosticism is a world - opposing form of faith in quest of a salvation that can be reached not by an eschatological reversal of the world or by a mystical dissolution and transformation of the world but only by the most radical kind of world - negation.

By the eschatological focus, as we must continue to insist, we do not mean that Jesus proclaimed a completely otherworldly and transmundane ethic.

Not exact matches

He also suggests that the eschatological prospect entertained by Jesus is a later addition, and notes that it has nothing to do with the gift of bread and wine.

Life after death is an eschatological hope and can only be held by faith.

The eschatological focus, the notion that the Eucharist takes us to the heavenly places, and the belief that the Eucharist «is not explicable in terms of the old creation» are all affirmations shared by many Protestants.

By taking this eschatological turn Jones sidesteps the sticky feminist problem of hypothesizing about woman's essential nature or else about an original gender harmony from which humanity once fell.

This same eschatological message, in much the same language, is presented by Paul:

Consequently he concerns himself with the historical question sufficiently seriously to trace, in one instance, the term «Son of Man» in the Gospels, the continuity between Jesus» message and the Church's witness: although Jesus may never have called himself Son of Man, he did say that acquittal by the Son of Man in the eschatological judgement was dependent upon one's present relation to himself (Mark 8.38 par.).

his life is lived out of transcendence, precisely because he has given himself to the eschatological situation introduced by John the Baptist.

Taubes points out that Tillich tries to escape the historical judgment that Christianity has abandoned its biblical and eschatological roots by the daring method of creating an eschatological ontology.

For this view Fuchs appeals to the parables, which were often spoken in the setting of the eschatological meals: «Jesus supplied his disciples with the interpretation of his parabolic language by an act of goodness.»

2.9 - 11); he is made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36); in this sense he is «appointed Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead» (Rom.

What is here said of the eschatological meals open to all is then generalized to an interpretation of Jesus» conduct as a whole: «This conduct is neither that of a prophet nor that of a sage, but rather the conduct of a man who dares to act in God's stead, by (as must always be added) calling near to him sinners who apart from him would have to flee from God.»

Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.

Another and intimately related form of Christianity's new estrangement was posed by the historical discovery of the eschatological «scandal» of New Testament faith.

This is the meaning and message of the Passover, and participation in it has the sacramental efficacy of producing rebirth; this is also the meaning of the commemoration of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, for by participating in the death of Christ who sums up all of the past, we also participate in his resurrection, which attains the eschatological future.

By following, in large measure, the original theological method of Barth, Bultmann maintains that the most authentic meaning of the primitive Christian eschatological expectation refers not to a cosmic end of the world but rather to a Krisis in human existence.

Here it is clear that Jesus» eschatological message, including his eschatological interpretation of his own conduct, has been continued in christological terms by the Easter faith and the Christian kerygma.

Given our work - oriented suffering, unrest, and joyless play, and given the eschatological visions both of God's playfulness and of our future as «players,» it follows that we are to usher in God's future by living now «spontaneously, unselfishly, as if playing.»

Now Heitsch is correct in saying that the Church soon and repeatedly lost sight of the eschatological existence proclaimed originally by the kerjgma.

It suggested a certain open - endedness that seemed to undergird human freedom of response to the divine initiative by pushing the fullness of God's being ahead to our ultimate future, in the definitive arrival of the eschatological basileia tou theou.

We are saved by faith and baptism into God's holy eschatological community that will be vindicated at the End as those who have fulfilled Torah to the glory of God.

Inevitably, the orthodox expressions of Christianity abandoned an eschatological ground, and no doubt the radical Christian's recovery of an apocalyptic faith and vision was in part occasioned by his own estrangement from the dominant and established forms of the Christian tradition.

First, it must again be stressed that the eschatological message of Jesus, the preaching of the coming of the Kingdom and of the call to repentance, can be understood only when one considers the conception of man which in the last analysis underlies it, and when one remembers that it can have meaning only for him who is ready to question the habitual human self - interpretation and to measure it by this opposed interpretation of human existence.

We can sense something of the early Christian understanding of the eschatological meaning of the new covenant by noting the words of Paul, who, while speaking of the old covenant as a law of death and condemnation, rejoices that the glory of the new covenant so surpasses the glory of the old that the old covenant now has no glory at all:

Now this certainly does not mean that the Christians could cause and help to establish their eschatological hope, which is the kingdom of God and ultimately God himself, by their cultural activities.

Only by a continual process of negating its own past expressions can the Word be a forward - moving process, and only by a process of reversing the totality of history can the Word be an eschatological Word breaking from the future into the present.

The Jewish expectation was of the eschatological activity of God, of a final and decisive intervention by God in history and human experience whereby his people would be redeemed.

Eschatological faith is the expression of an immediate participation in the «Kingdom of God» — an apocalyptic symbol that was never assimilated by Christian theology.

Hence in the practical risk of the unforeseen inner - worldly future man realizes his eschatological hope by looking away from himself to the absolute which is not in his power.

Palestinian Judaism was confronted by a crisis when Jesus proclaimed the eschatological forgiveness of sins, and «tax collectors and other Jews who had made themselves as Gentiles» responded in glad acceptance.

Strobel's argument is that the saying has been created by Luke to serve as an introduction to the following eschatological instruction to the disciples.

When the revival spread to Los Angeles and was accompanied by the gift of tongues, the claim was made that this was the eschatological sign; the new era had truly dawned.

First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new book, Surprised by Hope, which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»

When we reflect that the original message of Jesus was an eschatological proclamation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God, that the patristic Church transformed this message by a dissolution and elimination of its apocalyptic ground, that, ever since, the dogmatic and ritual foundations of the orthodox Church have been non-apocalyptic, and that it has only been in the non-verbal arts that Christendom has produced an apocalyptic imagery, then on this ground alone we would be fully justified in pronouncing Blake to be a revolutionary artist and seer.

there could be no particular form or content necessarily implied by a proclamation such as «the Kingdom of God is at hand»; each hearer would supply his own, and would be up to the proclaimer to make clear in what terms he conceived of the eschatological activity of God as king, we shall see, is what Jesus did.

So Mister Jeffress thinks that the eschatological prediction of doomsday on May 21 is more damaging to Christianity than the prediction of «rapture» preached by Southern Baptists which will teleport born again Christians to heaven while God brings all forms of natural disasters, disease, suffering, and evil upon the rest of mankind.

The significance of this initial reaction has been powerfully described by theologian James Alison in his book, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination.

While the appearance of Jesus as eschatological judge and the reference of all deeds of mercy to Jesus imply the exclusiveness of Jesus» role, the truth - judgment regarding this exclusivity runs counter to the metaphysical lure that grounds the confession itself by providing a universal sanction for Jesus» decisions.

In that this exhortation to deeds of love is sanctioned by an appeal to the eschatological judgment, at which Jesus appears as Son of Man and judge, however, the lure toward love is bracketed by an implicit recognition of its confessional context.

He boldly integrates this insight with his trinitarian theology by conceiving of the biblical narrative as «the final truth of God's own reality» in the mutual relations of God the Father, His incarnate Son, and the eschatological accomplishment of their communion by the Spirit.

Thus, Soulen argues, «Reverence for the divine name, expressed by its nonpronunciation, is the very wellspring of Jesus» speech, a token of his longing for the eschatological vindication of God's name [and] the silent source from which all his audible speech flows.»

Baseball is also spatially eschatological or infinite: in theory, a baseball field could extend forever — as center field in New York's old Polo Grounds seemed to do, except when patrolled by a higher spirit in human form who made space (and Vic Wertz's home run in the 1954 World Series) disappear: Willie Mays.

But Paul would disagree and would say «In order to be be saved you must be in Jesus the Messiah (by baptism and faith) and be part of His eschatological and holy community the church which will be vindicated at the End».

The eschatological elements of the salvation history theme have implied that the fullness of life lies only in the future; consequently, American churches have often responded to human suffering in the present by pointing the sufferer to God's future.

His theme is life eternal, that is to say, in eschatological language, the life of the Age to Come, but life eternal as realized here and now through the presence of Christ by His Spirit in the Church.

«26 For Barth, the meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological, for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history.27

The formulation «The messiah reveals the participation of all things in the eschatological fulfillment that he accomplishes by his death and resurrection» does not do justice to the biblical witness that the eschatological fulfillment is achieved through two comings of the messiah, not one.