Sentences with phrase «eschatological significance»

As he is both the hidden and the revealed Son of Man, so likewise the eschatological significance of Galilee is both hidden and revealed.

The eschatological significance of the phrase «son of man» in such passages can not be denied, but many deny the authenticity of the passages themselves.

The story takes on its eschatological significance.

The connection between them is not that the resurrection is a miraculous proof of the cosmic, eschatological significance of the cross.

The whole was conceived as a continuous, divinely directed process, in which past, present, and future alike had eschatological significance.

What I am concerned with is the «historic» significance of the unique event of past history, in virtue of which it possesses eschatological significance although it is a unique event of past history.

And this is exactly what gives the event of Christ its eschatological significance.

Karl Barth draws a similar conclusion, linking the meaning of the holy day to «salvation history and its eschatological significance.»

We have now to turn once more to the primitive kerygma, with special attention to that part of it which attributed an eschatological significance to facts of the present.

But if that be so, the resurrection can not be a miraculous proof capable of demonstration and sufficient to convince the skeptic that the cross really has the cosmic and eschatological significance ascribed to it.

So the word might not have eschatological significance here.

Not exact matches

Deeply indebted to the work of Albert Schweitzer from the turn of the twentieth century, he has cogently argued time and again for the historicity of the eschatological preaching of Jesus and the significance of the Passion.

In other words, the cross is not just an event of the past which can be contemplated, but is the eschatological event in and beyond time, in so far as it (understood in its significance, that is, for faith) is an ever - present reality.

The significance of this initial reaction has been powerfully described by theologian James Alison in his book, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination.

Levering argues in effect that the «eschatological fulfillment» in Christ means that the Old Testament distinction between Israel and the nations no longer has any theological or spiritual 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.

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 Christological question, which was originally a question about the eschatological and soteriological significance of an event, has become a question about the metaphysical nature of a person.

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.

Their knowledge of the life and ministry of Jesus, their experience of him as risen from the dead, and their recognition in him as 1) that hoped - for eschatological prophet (the Christ), as 2) God's own envoy, who could and does bear God's name (the Lord), and as 3) one who did and does God's saving work (the Savior)-- all contribute to the significance of that sign received first by the shepherds.

Just this is what we found to be the final significance of the eschatological message, that man now stands under the necessity of decision, that his «Now» is always for him the last hour, in which his decision against the world and for God is demanded, in which every claim of his own is to be silenced.

The closed world view of modern science, both in physics and in psychology, leaves no room for a unique historical event with an eschatological — i.e. final and absolute — significance.

But does not that event of the past possess eschatological and redemptive significance in its own right?

The eschatological expectation of the Christian church looks forward to a time when the meaning and significance of every human life will be revealed in Christ.