Sentences with phrase «eschatological act»

It is the distinction between the one who proclaimed the Kingdom of God as the imminently expected eschatological act of God and the one who is proclaimed as eschatological act of God.

(c) The emphasis upon the fact that in the message of Jesus this eschatological act of God is still future, albeit imminent and even now beginning to break in, whereas in the kerygma of the early Church it is already past, although available ever anew as God manifests himself as eschatological event in the kerygma.

(b) The introduction of a reference to the eschatological act of God, proclaimed by Jesus in terms of the Kingdom of God and by the early Church in terms of the cross and resurrection of Christ.

Further, faith is faith in the eschatological act of God in Jesus Christ, but that God has acted in Jesus Christ is not a fact of past history open to historical verification, and this is shown by the way in which the New Testament describes the figure and work of Christ in mythological — not historical — terms.

Baptism was experienced as an eschatological act, «eschatology put into practice», as it were.

This kind of purification is not the purification of individuals, but of Israel as a whole, an eschatological act.

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

Here is Bultmann's own answer: «There certainly are for those who regard all language about an act of God or of a decisive eschatological act as mythological.»

There is certainly no room in this modern world view for a unique eschatological act as distinct from that creative action which may be considered to be present in everything.

(We may add that if «mythological» means whatever can not be reconciled with the modern scientific view of the world with its closed system of cause and effect, then an eschatological act of God is either no act at all or else it is mythical in the above sense of that word.)

The deepest flaw of The Descent into Hell is that it is insufficiently theological; it fails to focus wholly on the self - negation of God, and thus fails to realize or make manifest that the eschatological acts and words of Jesus are an actualization or self - embodiment of God.

Not exact matches

But through these acts, reason is not able to grasp itself totally and fully, because the ultimate or eschatological future is not attained.

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.»

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.»

There certainly are for those who regard all language about an act of God or of a decisive, eschatological event as mythological.

But none of these ideas are essential to the nature of the expectation as an eschatological expectation; what is essential to that is the idea of a last, decisive, all - transforming act of God on behalf of his people.

It is therefore with an eschatological hope that we act, remaining confident of the meaningfulness of our social agenda Writes Smedes:

To return to the primitive kerygma, we recall that in it the expectation of the Lord's return was held in close association with a definite valuation of His ministry, death, and resurrection as constituting in themselves an eschatological process, that is, as a decisive manifestation of the mighty acts of God for the salvation of man.

Again, I asserted that eschatological existence has become a possibility because human life has been refashioned by the act of God.

Theologically speaking, this saving event proclaimed by the kerygma shows itself to be eschatological precisely by recurring in the proclamation of the kerygma itself: the act of proclaiming Jesus» death and resurrection becomes God's act calling upon me to accept my death and receive resurrected life.»

While the acts of God undoubtedly have this reference, it is hard to see how a «social and corporate» nature can be predicated of an eschatological community).

John 6: 42), and the destiny of that figure — i.e. a human being and his fate, with a recognizable place in world history, and therefore exposed to the objective observation of the historian and intelligible within their context in world history — are not thus apprehended and understood as what they really are, namely, as the act of God, as the eschatological event.

Rather, being meek in the beatitudinal sense means having an eschatological consciousness about violence, believing deeply that God has acted / is acting / will act in vindication of his beloved ones — who are, of course, the members of the human race in its entirety (cf. John 3:16).