Sentences with word «eschatological»

On the basis of this similarity, Newbigin treats science and religion as identical in form, so much so that we may, he argues, speak of the purpose in machines and the purpose in eschatological faith as ultimately the same.

This vision of God serves as the basis of eschatological hope.

Next, with regard to the very important role of the concept of «the future» in Dr. Altizer's thought, I find a very considerable ambiguity here, as to whether the future as eschatological future is grasped as vision or as analysis of actual existence in faith.

To explain the meaning of eschatological future, it is helpful to resort to an example.

Again, both attempt to translate the biblical form of eschatological faith into a modern form of existential intensity.

I say all this not because Feser's position entails the mistreatment of animals (it doesn't), but only to ask which eschatological vision offered by our two authors does more to inspire the Christian conscience to care for animal life.

Some scholars argue that because the churches were caught up in eschatological expectation, very little of their discussion about social ethics is relevant to modern issues.

6 Harvey Cox believes that the future of theology is lighted by two seminal thinkers of our time, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Ernst Bloch, and that the way Out of the «death of God» miasma could very well be the processive and eschatological dimension in the thinking of both men.

Christ is «fully baby,» and we bear babies who will be «fully baby» with eschatological hope.

Like Tillich's, the heart of Bultmann's method lies in the translation of eschatological symbols into categories referring only to human existence.

However, he was very wary of attempts to discern eschatological significance in the events of secular history.

Throughout, he emphasizes the historical and eschatological character of Christian thought.

Is it conceivable that he who as eschatological prophet proclaims the coming of the Kingdom and drives out demons, at the same time as a rabbi teaches his disciples and enters into disputes about questions of the Law which were important at that time?

Contemporary theology has been largely concerned with the nature of authentic Being, which it defines as eschatological existence as contrasted with death, to which our life in this present age is a prey.

Our only hope lies in a future eschatological act by God.

God is the supreme reality and basis for eschatological hope.

The concept of divinization sets our sights on eschatological fulfillment of our personhood.

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.

But these numerical arrangements, which the evangelist combines in 1:17, are eschatological interpretations of history, which can not be reconciled with each other.

Both divine love and divine power assure, for Moltmann, the eventual, eschatological consummation of God's intentions for God's creation.

But it was Augustine who first elaborated them carefully and, just as important, who first applied the Christian symbols of the cosmic drama — creation, fall, incarnation, ecclesia and eschatological end — to the structure and meaning of history, particularly of the history of the rise and fall of empires.

For me Paul is making an appeal to live in the new eschatological reality which includes the church that Messiah's coming has created.

The normal eschatological situation, which gives life urgency by facing us with the inevitability of our own death, the hunger for meaning, and the fear of suffering and loss, becomes apocalyptic when it appears that there is no longer time for normal urgency.

This chastity shares the same eschatological perspective as that of all consecrated life, that it is «for the sake of the kingdom of heaven» (Mt 19:12).

For this reason, contrary to what many critics of religion have claimed, accepting the promise held Out by eschatological faith is by no means an easy or childish escape from the difficulties of human existence.

I've written posts about moving from absolutism to openness, from eschatological escapism to kingdom - building, from propositions as fundamental to love as fundamental.

Moreover, it was not until the time of Jesus that a fully eschatological form of faith appeared, for only in Jesus» proclamations does the Kingdom of God cease to be a promise and become instead a present reality.

She seeks to rebut the dispensationalists» views and offer a more deeply biblical vision of Jesus» eschatological kingdom.

Nothing is so unique in apocalypticism as is its enactment of a new totality, an absolute novum that is the polar opposite of a primordial totality, but a novum in full apocalypticism that is already dawning or near at hand, just as it is in Jesus» initial eschatological proclamation that the time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is immediately at hand (Mark 1:15).

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.

Ethical demand and eschatological gift therefore accord with one another — but not in the sense that the latter assumes the former as a prerequisite or even less that, conversely, the «gift» precedes the «demand.»

Nor has anything been more characteristic of recent research than the gradual detection of early kerygmatic fragments in the New Testament, in which the original eschatological meaning of the christological titles used in the kerygma is still apparent, and is clearly distinct from their later metaphysical use: Jesus is «exalted» to the rank of cosmocrator with the «name that is above every name,... Lord Jesus Christ», in order to subjugate the universe (Phil.

The depiction of Jesus as a Cynic philosopher with no concern about Israel's destiny, no connection with the concerns and hopes that animated his Jewish contemporaries, no interest in the interpretation of Scripture, and no message of God's coming eschatological judgment is - quite simply - an ahistorical fiction, achieved by the surgical removal of Jesus from his Jewish context.

I mean that a new language is an essential element in the new life in fellowship, the life which is defined in such eschatological words as peace, righteousness, and redemption.

In particular, he is able to isolate considerations at work on the tradition at various points: the change of situation and audience, the loss of the original eschatological setting, the introduction of allegory, and so on.

1) ekklesia can be used in the spiritual / eschatological sense of God gathering / assembling his people out of the world.

In the Fourth Gospel the crudely eschatological elements in the kerygma are quite refined away.

Religious language, on the other hand, deals with ultimate and eschatological questions.

This idea of Calling is full of eschatological tension and a daring which conquers the world; indeed we might almost call it a «divine audacity» and the reason is this: God takes over all responsibility for our action in the world which in itself is sinful, if we, on our part, will only do here and now that which the present situation demands from one who loves God and his neighbor.23

An intrinsic connection of eschatological preaching and moral demand would evidently exist only if the coming Kingdom is so conceived that it becomes clear without further explanation that there can be no other condition except the one, radical obedience.

For a more thoroughgoing valuation of the life of Jesus in eschatological terms we must turn to the Synoptic Gospels, and in the first instance to Mark.

Making this kind of connection — between Jew and Christian, female and male, gay and straight, black and white, parent and child — is what eschatological living is all about.

The prevailing eschatological idea that the Church is the new Israel has diminished and sidelined Israel.

Now Paul describes himself, in contrast to the Corinthians, in terms of this same eschatological understanding of existence: