Sentences with phrase «eschatological sense»

Anger we recognize as the cultivation of an eschatological sense of righteousness and judgement, putting ourselves in the place of the patient justice of God.

They are functionally identical with biblical visions of joy and hope — the eschatological sense that language and faith may indeed convert and convict and lead men and women to that great imaginative vision of the New Testament: a new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired planet.

Héring, to whom I have been indebted at several points in this discussion, concludes his study of the appearances in the Synoptic Gospels of the phrase «Son of Man» in the eschatological sense with these three propositions:

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2.9 - 11); he is made «Lord and Christ» as the inauguration of eschatological existence at Pentecost (Acts 2.36); in this sense he is «appointed Son of God according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection of the dead» (Rom.

Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.

We can sense something of the early Christian understanding of the eschatological meaning of the new covenant by noting the words of Paul, who, while speaking of the old covenant as a law of death and condemnation, rejoices that the glory of the new covenant so surpasses the glory of the old that the old covenant now has no glory at all:

It can be seen that only the parables in and 2 may be said to be concerned with proclaiming the Kingdom in the same sense that the eschatological similes proclaim it.

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.»

Yet if we take eschatology in its broadest sense as equivalent to «heaven,» and heaven again as equivalent to the «realm of God,» Jesus announced an eschatological structure in his proclamation of the Kingdom.

Yet the early Christology of the Sayings Gospel can be sensed from such eschatological sayings: If Jesus» witness is decisive for one's fate, since neither God nor the angels will reject his witness, then it really does not make much difference with what title or lack of title that happens.

In the eschatological Christian community, the sense that the structures of communal and individual existence which had governed the past were now already at an end may well have relaxed the guard of consciousness against the powers of the unconscious.

The prophecy is eschatological in the sense that Isaiah is foretelling the ransoming of the people of Zion who are now in captivity.

A view of the kingdom of God need not be apocalyptic, but it is always in some sense eschatological.

John Knox in Christ the Lord, pp. 30 38, points out Jesus probably used the terms «Son of man» in both senses, but that the early church, convinced that he was the Messiah, gave an eschatological interpretation to some sayings not so intended.

(We may add that if «mythological» means whatever can not be reconciled with the modern scientific view of the world with its closed system of cause and effect, then an eschatological act of God is either no act at all or else it is mythical in the above sense of that word.)

The New Testament church was incurably eschatological, and its whole sense for life was conditioned by that style.

«Christ» here stands for the new order of relationships between men and God and among men, the new and divine community, which is preeminently heavenly and eschatological but which in a real though partial sense has come into historical existence with the event and in which the believer is already incorporated.

He probably used the title with both meanings — that is, to designate both man and the Son of Man — but because the eschatological seemed the more important to the early church (especially since it was soon believed that Jesus was alluding to himself when he used the term), it was inevitable that all of Jesus» uses of the phrase should be interpreted in that sense and, if necessary, conformed to it.

Now even a glance at the long course of eschatological reflection among the Jews will reveal that it was concerned predominantly with the culminating event of history and only in a secondary sense and measure with the personal agent through whom this event would be brought to pass.

However, in this sense, no believer is ever alone, because they are part of that spiritual / eschatological gathering.

As to eschatological representations in the proper sense, it is John who goes farthest in the direction of demythologization.

Biblical religion in particular, because of its eschatological and at times apocalyptic characteristics, has often been viewed as teleological; and in a qualified sense this association is appropriate.

The church is a sign of the kingdom of God, and in that sense participates in it, but it points beyond itself to the eschatological kingdom in all its fullness.

When the sacred and the profane are understood as dialectical opposites whose mutual negation culminates in a transition or metamorphosis of each into its respective Other, then it must appear that a Christian and eschatological coincidentia oppositorum in this sense is finally a coming together or dialectical union of an original sacred and the radical profane.

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.

Rather, being meek in the beatitudinal sense means having an eschatological consciousness about violence, believing deeply that God has acted / is acting / will act in vindication of his beloved ones — who are, of course, the members of the human race in its entirety (cf. John 3:16).

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.