Sentences with phrase «cosmic eschatology»

Laughlin & Adams now classic paper & book on cosmic eschatology (A dying universe: the long - term fate and evolution of astrophysical objects & «The Five Ages of the Universe») covers the formation of new red dwarfs by BD collisions in the long era after the regular stars have long since sputtered out.

The only question is whether this understanding is necessarily bound up with the cosmic eschatology in which the New Testament places it — with the exception of the Fourth Gospel, where the cosmic eschatology has already become picture language, and where the eschatological event is seen in the coming of Jesus as the Word, the Word of God which is continually represented in the word of proclamation.

The so - called «transmuted eschatology» of the Fourth Gospel has to be viewed in connection with the rigorous cosmic eschatology which is one of the features of its rugged dualism.

In Karl Barth's book The Resurrection of the Dead the cosmic eschatology in the sense of «chronologically final history» is eliminated in favor of what he intends to be a non-mythological «ultimate history».

Not exact matches

It is surely possible to think that Whitehead's understanding of the consequent nature of God or the kingdom of heaven is implicitly if partially grounded in a genuine eschatology, and is so because it apprehends a transmutation of evil into good by way of a cosmic and universal process.

In any case, there is a great risk of reducing the rich content of eschatology to a kind of instantaneousness of the present decision at the expense of the temporal, historical, communitarian, and cosmic aspects contained in the hope of the Resurrection.

John Macquarrie has noted that «much of the traditional Christian eschatology, whether conceived as the cosmic drama of the indefinite future or as the future bliss of the individual after death, has rightly deserved the censures of Marxists and Freudians who have seen in it the flight from the realities of present existence».10

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.

In biblical eschatology, the personal survival of the individual does not depend on any generic metaphysical traits of human souls themselves, but rather on the cosmic change of state that ushers in the new age.

This kind of apocalyptic eschatology reinforced a radical cultural dualism and provided a cosmic urgency for the true believers to «come out from among them and be separate» (2 Corinthians 6:17).