Sentences with phrase «eschatological significance of an event»

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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.

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

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.

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?