Sentences with phrase «eschatological elements»

Another version of this same fundamental objection states that process thought does not do justice to the eschatological elements of New Testament faith.

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

The eschatological elements of the salvation history theme have implied that the fullness of life lies only in the future; consequently, American churches have often responded to human suffering in the present by pointing the sufferer to God's future.

One of the chief stones of stumbling in the Gospels has been the eschatological element.

Perhaps the eschatological element in biblical faith determines the negative attitude toward what was clearly a force of nature, but also though not so clearly, a force of the spirit.4

In other words, Thomas has removed most of the eschatological element from Christian teaching.

Not exact matches

Bultmann's theology also proceeds out of the two elements of the modern experience of the eclipse of God and the modern «scandal» of the eschatological foundations of the Christian faith.

Secondly, if we believe in God's eschatological promise to the Church of Christ we must be convinced that his Spirit will preserve the institutional Church both at the decisive moment and indefinitely from suppressing or manipulating its charismatic elements.

The resurrection idiom in its eschatological form was a lively element in Jewish thought, and an essential pre-requisite for the rise of the Easter proclamation.

Even when the other elements of this eschatological picture were inclined to be abandoned, the element of the «resurrection of the dead» was retained, largely because of the Christian affirmation of the resurrection of Jesus.

Even the resurrection of Christ proclaimed in the Easter faith had this future element in it as a necessary ingredient (scholars refer to this as the eschatological character of the resurrection) and it was partly due to the loss of this element that the Easter «event» came to be misunderstood.

These two aspects of the term correspond respectively to the contemporary historical reconstruction of primitive Christianity and to the normative centre of contemporary theology, so that the term kerygma comes to represent the unifying element in the contemporary situation: historically speaking, the central content of primitive Christian preaching was God's eschatological action centring in the saving event of cross and resurrection.

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.

Although once again it may be argued that the Jewish scene contained all the necessary elements for the rise of this eschatological hope, it can nevertheless be shown that Zoroastrian thought from Persia was a contributing factor, even if it did not actually originate it.

6 Martin Werner has given prominence to the eschatological motif of co-rule with Christ as the authentically apostolic element in the rise of monepiscopacy.