Sentences with phrase «eschatological terms»

87 Martin Werner is very illuminating in analyzing the problem of Cyprian and the confessors in eschatological terms, op.

For a more thoroughgoing valuation of the life of Jesus in eschatological terms we must turn to the Synoptic Gospels, and in the first instance to Mark.

It is indeed clear that the primitive formulation of the Gospel in eschatological terms is as strange as it could well be to our minds.

If that trust is articulated in the properly eschatological terms of Christian self - understanding, then a confident hope for a future full recognition of that God, a hope for a vision of the whole beyond present ambiguity and brokenness, is disclosed in the proleptic manifestation called Jesus Christ.

4.8 - 13, which describes Christian existence first in eschatological terms such as Jesus used, and then in Paul's more typical language of union with Christ.

Paul thought of ultimate reality in transcendental and eschatological terms.

Not exact matches

The eschatological focus, the notion that the Eucharist takes us to the heavenly places, and the belief that the Eucharist «is not explicable in terms of the old creation» are all affirmations shared by many Protestants.

Consequently he concerns himself with the historical question sufficiently seriously to trace, in one instance, the term «Son of Man» in the Gospels, the continuity between Jesus» message and the Church's witness: although Jesus may never have called himself Son of Man, he did say that acquittal by the Son of Man in the eschatological judgement was dependent upon one's present relation to himself (Mark 8.38 par.).

Here it is clear that Jesus» eschatological message, including his eschatological interpretation of his own conduct, has been continued in christological terms by the Easter faith and the Christian kerygma.

there could be no particular form or content necessarily implied by a proclamation such as «the Kingdom of God is at hand»; each hearer would supply his own, and would be up to the proclaimer to make clear in what terms he conceived of the eschatological activity of God as king, we shall see, is what Jesus did.

This present includes the simple historical future, so that the term «present» is contrasted with the eschatological future.

It would occur by means of what Hegel terms «pure negativity» or the «negation of negation,» and it would move through the reality of the profane to a final or eschatological sacred that reconciles the profane with itself.

Both saw rhe parables in terms of their relationship to the eschatological Kingdom.152 Little attention was, therefore, paid to the context of nature.

«The term I prefer to use to describe this eschatological hermeneutic is christotelic,» he writes.

The Kingdom (or Reign) of God, Jesus» «comprehensive term for the blessing of salvation,» is an eschatological concept which shows that Jesus stands in the historical context of Jewish expectations about the end of the world and God's new future» 7 yet his teaching also contrasts with that context.

The eschatological future is a relative term.

John Knox in Christ the Lord, pp. 30 38, points out Jesus probably used the terms «Son of man» in both senses, but that the early church, convinced that he was the Messiah, gave an eschatological interpretation to some sayings not so intended.

Pre-existence is essential in the Son of Man idea, and Jesus could hardly have been thought of as being the Son of Man (or an eschatological Redeemer, whatever terms were used) without the conception being present.

He probably used the title with both meanings — that is, to designate both man and the Son of Man — but because the eschatological seemed the more important to the early church (especially since it was soon believed that Jesus was alluding to himself when he used the term), it was inevitable that all of Jesus» uses of the phrase should be interpreted in that sense and, if necessary, conformed to it.

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.

It is possible, he says, to speak in nonmythological terms of the finitude of the world and of man before the transcendent power of God, even of the signification of eschatological myths.

In theological terms, this means that revelation must recede into the pure formality of the eschatological stance, which corresponds to the Kantian Split.

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.

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

Each interpretation presupposed a particular pattern of eschatological outlook; and it is clear that the earliest Christology was really, as the term suggests, an eschatology, in which the central figure was the same — the risen, glorified Christ who had lived and talked and done mighty works in Galilee but had died on a cross outside Jerusalem, who was now at the right hand of God, and was soon to come in glory to inaugurate the New Age.

1:5) There is an «eschatological presence» now (though I agree with Pawlikowski that the term «realized eschatology» might better be avoided), but the eschaton is not yet.

For the Church is the eschatological congregation of the saints whose identity with a sociological institution and a phenomenon of the world's history can be asserted only in terms of paradox.

The term «eschatological,» derived from the Greek noun eschaton, literally means «final» or «last.»

Further, faith is faith in the eschatological act of God in Jesus Christ, but that God has acted in Jesus Christ is not a fact of past history open to historical verification, and this is shown by the way in which the New Testament describes the figure and work of Christ in mythological — not historical — terms.

(b) The introduction of a reference to the eschatological act of God, proclaimed by Jesus in terms of the Kingdom of God and by the early Church in terms of the cross and resurrection of Christ.

Crossan, on the other hand, retains the term «eschatological» but reduces it to meaning world - negation — «a radical criticism of culture and civilization.»