Sentences with phrase «catastrophic end of history»
These interpreters take the third meaning as normative and assert not only that Jesus expected the imminent and catastrophic end of history and the present world and God's establishment of a new order in which his righteous purpose would be perfectly fulfilled, but also that whenever he spoke of the «kingdom of God» he used the phrase in that sense and in that sense only.
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The issues of chief difficulty arise at the point of questions as to whether Jesus expected the Kingdom to come on earth or only in some realm beyond earthly history, and in the latter event, whether he expected earthly history to end very soon by a catastrophic divine intervention when he himself would return in glory to reign over a transfigured world.