Sentences with phrase «eschatological gift»

Any followers of Jesus or of John the Baptist who had not received the Spirit were still living the obsolete life of the old Israel which had only the Law and the historical Jesus, but not the eschatological gift of Spirit.

Both the rank and file of Christians at Pentecost and Peter, the apostle, illustrate the eschatological gift of the Spirit as the plain - language preaching that Joel had foretold.

Early Palestinian Christian tradition understood baptism as an eschatological reality binding believers to the eschatological person of the Messiah, conveying them into the end - time reality of the Kingdom, bestowing on them the eschatological gift of the Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sin, and incorporating them into the company of those redeemed by the Christ.

That the Eschaton is not a merely future reality should be clear from my statement that «tradition communicates the Holy Spirit, who is the eschatological gift.»

This promise of final grace is, so to say, an eschatological gift.

Wherever the Spirit of Christ, which as the eschatological gift anticipates God's new creation in history, is present in its ecclesially constitutive activity, there is the church.

Ethical demand and eschatological gift therefore accord with one another — but not in the sense that the latter assumes the former as a prerequisite or even less that, conversely, the «gift» precedes the «demand.»

Not exact matches

He also suggests that the eschatological prospect entertained by Jesus is a later addition, and notes that it has nothing to do with the gift of bread and wine.

When the revival spread to Los Angeles and was accompanied by the gift of tongues, the claim was made that this was the eschatological sign; the new era had truly dawned.

The Gospel offers us the gift / virtue of an eschatological hope; but that is not all that it bestows on us.

However, in the first case of the unreturned gift, one could say that there always remains a hope for a reciprocal gesture, as there is in an eschatological reserve: there will always be self - sacrificing in this life, but in hope of the eternal banquet.

A wider reading of the New Testament, especially John and Paul, suggests that such injunctions are only a moment of eschatological delay within a wider promotion of gift - exchange beyond the fetishized limits upon such exchange imposed by most ancient societies.

To understand Jesus as the eschatological phenomenon (that is, as the Savior through whom God delivers the world by passing judgment on it and granting the future as a gift to those who believe on him), all that is necessary is to proclaim that he has come, and that is what St. John does so clearly.

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.

It is not something already present because of having been inaugurated by Jesus in his own person as the Messiah.24 It is the supernatural, superhistorical gift of God to him who responds affirmatively to God in the ultimate — even eschatological decision of his own existence.

Man must build his existence upon that which is beyond his control and available only as God's gift (ubi et quando visum est deo), upon a world which is transcendent by being basically future, and present only as the eschatological miracle, the gift of transcendence.

The experienced nearness of God's reigning power justifies Jesus» anticipatory actions: his table - fellowship with the lost sheep of Israel looking forward to the messianic banquet; the gift of God's forgiveness, reserved for messianic times (Mark 2:5); his preaching of a new, eschatological Torah designed for this new coming age.

This ran counter to the Continental emphasis on the eschatological nature of the Kingdom and their understanding that the Kingdom is a gift of God and not a human achievement.