Sentences with phrase «eschatological tension»

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.

The ambiguity of his origin corresponds to the two generations of the third division of the genealogy, which he simultaneously fills, as well as the eschatological tension between the two numerical schemes of verse 17 that serve as the framework of his table of ancestry.

The eschatological tension becomes eschatology itself with Dostoevsky.

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

And it is this eschatological tension that gives the Christian presence in the world its revolutionary vigor.

Not exact matches

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

The tension between our moment and the eschatological moment must be retained.

Yet eschatological grace does not annul the tensions of grace as Power over and in man.

On the contrary, it sharpened the tension between belief in the age which was to come — the eschatological end of all things — and the new age which has already been inaugurated for believers in the resurrection.

One thing is sure about the eschatological horizon - one day that tension will be resolved.

As the Church, we believe we live at the edge of the eschatological horizon, meaning we are a people who live in a tension between what we preach and the broken world around us.