Sentences with phrase «eschatological expectation»

If we are not careful, we could cross the line into a sentimentality that shrinks our eschatological expectation.

7.13 in connection with eschatological expectation does not end with the apocalyptic literature, but continues into the talmudic and midrashic tradition, where it is also used in connection with the Messiah.

The eschatological expectation of the Christian church looks forward to a time when the meaning and significance of every human life will be revealed in Christ.

The eschatological expectation that the dead will rise is inseparable both from redemption and peoplehood; it is part of the drama of the promised national deliverance.

We need only remember that eschatological expectation in itself is not necessarily associated with the call to repentance and with the preaching of the will of God.

(A vivid eschatological expectation may have a similar effect, as may be seen e.g. in 4 Ezra — I know that several books have recently appeared on the influence of Luther on Kant.)

Jewish eschatological expectation looked for a general resurrection at the beginning of the New Age.

As always, exegetes obsessed by Jewish custom or eschatological expectation or charismatic gifts or psychological states may miss the highly political significance of what the Gospel writer is recording.

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.

In the repentance movement which his baptism introduced, they were to share in the fulfillment of an eschatological expectation.

The eschatological expectation of the imminent rule of God leads to a desire to do away with law in the name of the divine freedom which is or will be directly present in all creatures without need of law or representation.

It includes everything from «the eschatological expectation, the proclamation of the [kingdom of God]... the introduction of the Gentiles into salvation history, [and] the rejection of the ordinary religion of cult and Law.»

First, N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, responded (Correspondence, June / July 2008) to Richard John Neuhaus» comments on his new book, Surprised by Hope, which had included a criticism that its «concrete eschatological expectation» of a physical resurrection on a perfected earth was «more suggestive of Joseph Smith than St. Paul»» noting that Mormons were simply taking seriously the relevant passages in the New Testament at the very time that «the Western Protestant church... was eliminating the ancient concrete eschatological expectation.»

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.

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.

Eschatological expectations are no longer grounded in the supernatural, as they always had been until 1945; now they have been brought home to the immediate level of common worldly experience.

For instance, since the eschatological expectations recorded in both the Hebrew and Christian testaments have not come to pass after hundreds and hundreds of years, why should Christians today harbor the same expectations?

This individualism has dismissed both the extrinsic and the intrinsic value of each human being in favor of material and professional indices of success that most people believe are due to luck as much as anything else (hence the increasing popularity of lotteries) Because the apocalyptic worldview of the early church has now been replaced with the desperate and meaningless finality of possible nuclear annihilation, eschatological expectations and hope for reversal of human fortunes have given way to a «present - only» scheme of refetence even in Christian theology.

That would be tantamount to saying that the Sattlemer Rebbe and his followers, who deny any form of historical realization of eschatological expectations, represent Judaism as a whole.

Apostle of the Last Days challenged me to read Paul's letters not just in light of the history and culture of Judaism, but also in the history and culture of Graeco - Roman thinking, and most importantly of all, in light of the eschatological expectations of both groups.

Not exact matches

The Jewish expectation was of the eschatological activity of God, of a final and decisive intervention by God in history and human experience whereby his people would be redeemed.

The best and most important evidence for the currency of the eschatological Kingdom of God expectation at the time of Jesus and its lack of definite form is the Kaddish prayer of the ancient synagogue.

The Kingdom (or Reign) of God, Jesus» «comprehensive term for the blessing of salvation,» is an eschatological concept which shows that Jesus stands in the historical context of Jewish expectations about the end of the world and God's new future» 7 yet his teaching also contrasts with that context.

Thus the authentic line of development, as the expectation of an immediate advent faded, led to a concentration of attention upon the historical facts of the ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, exhibited in an eschatological setting which made clear their absolute and final quality as saving facts.

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.

The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is an eschatological feast, a festival of joy and expectation.

Whether in an eschatological future or here and now, our conditions of religious fulfillment are significantly constituted by the expectations, relations, images and practices that we bring to them.

It is clear that the teaching of Jesus was eschatological in the sense that life is to be lived in expectation of the judgement and the coming of the kingdom, and his acceptance of the titles Son of man and Messiah implied a claim that the Kingdom of God had already come or was about to begin.