Sentences with phrase «eschatological setting»

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 particular, he is able to isolate considerations at work on the tradition at various points: the change of situation and audience, the loss of the original eschatological setting, the introduction of allegory, and so on.

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.

It is clear, then, that we have here, as in the preaching which we found to lie behind the Pauline epistles, a proclamation of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in an eschatological setting from which those facts derive their saving significance.

The Pauline kerygma, therefore, is a proclamation of the facts of the death and resurrection of Christ in an eschatological setting which gives significance to the facts.

These facts fall within the eschatological setting of the whole, no less than the facts of His death and resurrection.

Not exact matches

Over against this diagnosis, Moltmann sets in dialectical tension his eschatological vision of «The Theological Play of God's Good Pleasure.»

Dodd established the fact that the «setting in life» of the parables is the eschatological proclamation of Jesus, and he achieved a presentation of the message of the parables.

For this view Fuchs appeals to the parables, which were often spoken in the setting of the eschatological meals: «Jesus supplied his disciples with the interpretation of his parabolic language by an act of goodness.»

The present setting of this saying is editorial, as are all settings in the tradition, and in this instance the setting is at least as old as Q, since both Matthew and Luke use the saying and its setting in different ways: Matthew to interpret the exorcisms of Jesus as a present manifestation of the eschatological future, «spirit» being «in primitive Christianity, like the «first - fruits» (Rom.

It does not settle the question of what happens to individual occasions or persons beyond their moment of occurrence, but it sets a different context for this eschatological discussion.

The concept of divinization sets our sights on eschatological fulfillment of our personhood.

Set in the context of the eschatological challenge of Jesus» proclamation, these parables challenge men to sober judgement.

Here he sets his methodological compass and follows it toward the God - world relation in terms of creation, incarnation, sanctification, and eschatological redemption.

Responsible theological teachers did not take at their face value the pictures of heaven which were found in hymnody, nor did they regard the somewhat extraordinary set of images in Revelation as being an exact representation — indeed, these images, laden with Jewish eschatological conceptions of the nature of the Kingdom of God when there should be «a new heaven and a new earth» were sometimes felt to be slightly embarrassing.

(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.

-- such characteristic teachings of Jesus, even when their statement happens to be set in an eschatological framework, have another source than apocalypticism, and they are not so demonstrably fashioned by it that, without it, we can be sure they would have been very different.

The current eschatological trend provided the setting in which this desire for vindication could find an answer.