Sentences with phrase «eschatological consummation»

We are told of the fullness and the Second Coming, but of the nature of these things and their relation to the historical process we have no idea whatever: In the only sense that our imaginations can grasp, the task starts all over again with every baptism, every birth, and reaches its eschatological consummation on every deathbed.

Time is incorporated into eternity through the eschatological consummation of God's creating and redeeming work, and this work itself constitutes the eternal perichoresis of the three persons making up the trinitarian life.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and fully toward an eschatological consummation.17

This eschatological consummation will be the death of the transcendent God, his self - negation by a total incarnation of actualization «throughout the total range of human experience, «18 his «kenotic passion» fulfilled in a «new and liberated humanity «19 — a humanity liberated from even the memory of God to become its own Divine Self.20

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

Not exact matches

«26 For Barth, the meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological, for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history.27

When the unexpected delay in the consummation broke up the continuity of the eschatological process, some readjustment of outlook was called for.

Heaven, hell, purgatory, resurrection, personal immortality, and final judgment are all eschatological concepts, as is the kingdom of God when it is viewed in the light of a final consummation.

The new or eschatological covenant is the covenant of the fullness of time, the consummation of the ages (Gal 4:4; Heb.