Sentences with phrase «eschatological judgment»

This way of life is in practice always subject to the imperative, because the eschatological judgment still lies in the future, and the present age is not yet at an end.

The depiction of Jesus as a Cynic philosopher with no concern about Israel's destiny, no connection with the concerns and hopes that animated his Jewish contemporaries, no interest in the interpretation of Scripture, and no message of God's coming eschatological judgment is - quite simply - an ahistorical fiction, achieved by the surgical removal of Jesus from his Jewish context.

which clearly shows that there existed in the early Church what we shall call an eschatological judgment pronouncement tradition having its roots in Christian prophecy and its Sitz im Leben in the Eucharist.

Human life continues to be «historic» even when it is eschatological — for that I take it is what you mean by «the eschatological judgment still lies in the future» — and it issues forth in a new life.

In that this exhortation to deeds of love is sanctioned by an appeal to the eschatological judgment, at which Jesus appears as Son of Man and judge, however, the lure toward love is bracketed by an implicit recognition of its confessional context.

Not exact matches

Taubes points out that Tillich tries to escape the historical judgment that Christianity has abandoned its biblical and eschatological roots by the daring method of creating an eschatological ontology.

Can we not make the judgment that it is precisely this vision of the death of God in Christ that can make possible for us a realization of the deeper meaning of the Christian and eschatological symbol of the dawning of the Kingdom of God?

While the appearance of Jesus as eschatological judge and the reference of all deeds of mercy to Jesus imply the exclusiveness of Jesus» role, the truth - judgment regarding this exclusivity runs counter to the metaphysical lure that grounds the confession itself by providing a universal sanction for Jesus» decisions.

In his concluding section on eschatological fulfillment, Jenson's interpretation of the final judgment as «rectification» deserves particular attention.

The eschatological idea of judgment has received a conclusive reinterpretation.

The judgment and the resurrection, other aspects of eschatological grace, are subordinate to the return of the triumphant Christ since they are part of the vindication of God in the second coming.

This is also a parable of judgment, though its eschatological note appears only in the last sentence of it.

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.

Heaven, hell, purgatory, resurrection, personal immortality, and final judgment are all eschatological concepts, as is the kingdom of God when it is viewed in the light of a final consummation.

The New Testament puts less emphasis on direct political judgments, both because of its eschatological setting and because Jesus and his disciples were not even citizens of the political empire in which they lived.

In part this conclusion resulted from the dominant scholarly understanding of Jesus that did emerge from the withering fire of historical criticism: that Jesus was the eschatological prophet who believed that the final judgment was coming in his generation.

It looks not to a juridical judgment in foro coeli, but to the eschatological day of judgment.

To use David Tracy's language, the church is «a strictly theological reality, a grace from God,» a community that stands «under the eschatological proviso of the judgment of God.»