Sentences with phrase «eschatological idea»

In a culture and time in which people are taught to live for the moment, to put history behind them and not presume to hope for the future, the eschatological idea and faith seem out of place.

The eschatological idea of judgment has received a conclusive reinterpretation.

gave rise to the Hindu Upanishads and to Buddhism in India, to the religions of Lao - Tzu and Confucius in China, to the eschatological ideas of Zoroaster in Persia, to the classical biblical prophets in Israel and Judah, and to the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in the Greek world.

Not exact matches

The Kingdom of God as eschatological deliverance is diametrically opposed to all relative values — provided that the idea of eschatology is wholly and radically understood; and such an understanding must now be sought.

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.

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

Human future both historical and eschatological is a valid theological category and so is the idea of historical development.

The idea of the binding of the evil powers should be viewed in the context of the eschatological message of the kingdom (cf. Isa.

This idea of Calling is full of eschatological tension and a daring which conquers the world; indeed we might almost call it a «divine audacity» and the reason is this: God takes over all responsibility for our action in the world which in itself is sinful, if we, on our part, will only do here and now that which the present situation demands from one who loves God and his neighbor.23

With the same sureness with which he repudiates all apocalyptic or eschatological speculations, he holds fast to the idea that man stands before God under the necessity of decision.

Pre-existence is essential in the Son of Man idea, and Jesus could hardly have been thought of as being the Son of Man (or an eschatological Redeemer, whatever terms were used) without the conception being present.

This was in part the result of the eschatological concept of salvation that pervaded the early Church, in part the result of a too limited idea of the scope of agape.

The idea of prospective salvation is the notion of an eschatological moment at the end of time when everyone will be given the opportunity of a saving encounter with Christ.

(Professor Gilkey has listed five marks of the death of God tradition, and they should perhaps be set down: (1) the problematic character of God and of man's relation to him today, (2) the acceptance of the secular world as normative intellectually and ethically good, (3) the restriction of theological statements to what one can actually affirm oneself, and with this the rejection of certain traditional ideas of tradition and authority, (4) the centrality of Jesus as one who calls us into the world to serve him there, (5) uneasiness with mythological, super-historical, eschatological, supernatural entities or categories.

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.

«I'm hoping the data opens a discussion about preachers» eschatological beliefs, why they hold those ideas, and how congregants and faith leaders can better understand the biblical texts,» he said.

While regarding the parousia as a Christian idea, he not only relates Jesus to first - century Jewish religion but emphasizes his eschatological awareness: «the religion of Jesus the Jew is a rare, possibly unique, manifestation of undiluted eschatological enthusiasm.»

Vermes examines the nature, style and content of Jesus» preaching, discusses the idea of God as King and Father in relation to Jesus» «eschatological enthusiasm» and portrays «Jesus the Religious Man» before reaching the epilogue «intended to bring into sharp relief the difference between this religion and historic, ecclesiastical Christianity.»

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