Sentences with phrase «eschatological emissary»

But what about his formulae: «God's eschatological emissary» and «the agent of God's presence and activity»?

Bultmann's formula would apply just as well to a prophet (John the Baptist might equally be called an «eschatological emissary»).

For the kerygma maintains that the eschatological emissary of God is a concrete figure of a particular historical past, that his eschatological activity was wrought out in a human fate, and that therefore it is an event whose eschatological character does not admit of a secular proof.