Sentences with phrase «concerning eschatology»

Both Trent and The Catechism of the Catholic Church as well as the 1979 Letter on Certain Questions concerning Eschatology make the point that any sense of punishment «is altogether different from the punishment of the damned.»

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

Not exact matches

But of course the «vision» of orthodox Calvinists is greatly different from that of process theists, although Karl Barth's new Calvinism seems to have been enticed by a kind of inclusive «universalism» which prompted Brunner and Berkouwer to show signs of concern over Barth's long - run eschatology.

Theologians are still almost exclusively concerned with the presence of Christ in or with bread and wine; that is, with a realized eschatology in the Lord's Supper.

Eschatology is concerned about the goal of humanity and the world; apocalyptic is consumed with the actual end of the planet earth as it is presently constituted.

The quest for an adequate Christian eschatology has too often become narrowed down to the concern for personal immortality.

Though it contains great, tender words about life after death, its primary concern is not eschatology but eternal life through Christ in the present.

Eschatology is the branch of theology concerned with the final events in human or world history.

Indeed, eschatology is not at all concerned with the meaning and goal of secular history, for secular history belongs to the old aeon, and therefore can have neither meaning nor goal.

For «Eschatology is the doctrine concerned with the limits and boundaries of our living, in time and existence, toward which at every moment our whole lives tend.»

To give an example from a matter that will concern us later, the eschatology of Jesus demands that we wrestle with the problem of the meaning of the element of futurity in the hope of first - century Judaism, and at the same time that we do justice to the new element in the teaching of Jesus in this regard.

If Isaiah's Messianism has an eschatological flavor, that is, if it anticipates a growing concern in subsequent centuries with the «last things,» we may remark that this is, for Isaiah, the goal of history; that Isaiah may indeed be the father of Jewish and Christian eschatology; but that for Isaiah it is a «natural» and consistent development of a very real covenant history.

It is this concern with the end - time, the end of the age, that we call eschatology.

Hick, one of the few prominent philosophers of religion who concerns himself with personal eschatology, has labored over the past few decades to construct a picture of heaven that is free of religious particularity.

Even if steps are taken to avoid psychologizing, to give due emphasis to the eschatology, etc., the fundamental weakness remains the fact that the deliberate elevation of a historically reconstructed figure to the central concern of faith must inevitably lead to the confusion of two quite separate functions: the reconstruction of a historical figure and what we shall call the construction of a faith - image.