Sentences with phrase «eschatological situation»

The normal eschatological situation, which gives life urgency by facing us with the inevitability of our own death, the hunger for meaning, and the fear of suffering and loss, becomes apocalyptic when it appears that there is no longer time for normal urgency.

Apart from the eschatological situation of the triumph of the New Creation, Paul's theology is simply meaningless.

If we know anything at all about the ministry of Jesus, we know that no action of his ministry brought greater offense to his hearer than his forgiveness of sin; and no theme of his sayings or parables overshadows the proclamation of forgiveness, although we must recognize that originally this forgiveness was inseparable from the eschatological situation of the dawning of the Kingdom of God.

Hence his selfhood found its positive expression in his role as «sign» of the eschatological situation to the world.

Yet the eschatological situation in which he found himself was not yet that of the final blessedness, but rather the «last hour», in which forgiveness was offered to the penitent.

his life is lived out of transcendence, precisely because he has given himself to the eschatological situation introduced by John the Baptist.

Hence Jesus» call for obedience in the eschatological situation logically presupposes an eschatological selfhood.

Not exact matches

The Jesus whom we «know» is a deluded Jewish fanatic, his message is wholly eschatological, and hence Jesus and his message are totally irrelevant to our time and situation.

As Taubes says, Tillich «eschatologizes ontology» and «ontologizes eschatology» in the light of man's present situation: «His entire system rotates around the one eschatological problem: man's self - estrangement in his being and his reconciliation in the «new being.»»

The situation in the early church was not that the event was regarded as the eschatological event, because Jesus was believed to be the Christ but rather that Jesus was called Christ because he had been the decisive center of what was empirically realized to be the eschatological event.

This idea of Calling is full of eschatological tension and a daring which conquers the world; indeed we might almost call it a «divine audacity» and the reason is this: God takes over all responsibility for our action in the world which in itself is sinful, if we, on our part, will only do here and now that which the present situation demands from one who loves God and his neighbor.23

In such a situation the eschatological question, «What is the world coming to?»

The danger of maintaining traditional styles and practices of faith in a new situation is that their very life and existence will block or reverse an eschatological and dialectical movement of faith.

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 far in this part of our discussion I have been trying to show that Paul's thinking about the work of Christ is predominantly eschatological: In virtue of an obedience which man, who stood simply in the succession of Adam, could not give, and of a victory which man could not win, the human situation has been radically transformed.

Because one knows God as responding to human needs in terms of the eschatological forgiveness of sins, one must respond to the needs of a neighbour in terms of whatever may be appropriate to the immediate situation.

Primitive Christianity experienced Jesus as a unique action of God, creating a situation in which man has an unique opportunity to lay hold of eschatological existence.

These two aspects of the term correspond respectively to the contemporary historical reconstruction of primitive Christianity and to the normative centre of contemporary theology, so that the term kerygma comes to represent the unifying element in the contemporary situation: historically speaking, the central content of primitive Christian preaching was God's eschatological action centring in the saving event of cross and resurrection.

The danger, as I see it, of maintaining traditional styles and practices of faith in a new situation is that their very life and existence will block or reverse an eschatological and dialectical movement of faith.

The eschatological tension of this situation, constituted essentially as the denouement of a ministry of suffering love, implies for ministry something other than mere encouragement to persons who are suffering.

True, this Jesus of the kerygma, this Jesus of faith - knowledge, encounters us in our historic situation, but he is not the historic Jesus, he is the Christ, the eschatological Jesus.

To overstate the situation somewhat, the essential Pauline contrast between past and present / future is replaced by emphasis on the present, and while Paul's scheme is primarily historical / eschatological John's is cosmic / personal.