Sentences with phrase «eschatological vision»

In the end, my biggest problem with the book — and the particular Christian eschatological vision that underlies it — is that Hauerwas never tries to imagine what real life would look like if we adopted his ethic.

The world in this formist argument is witnessed not so much in newspapers, scientific works, and eschatological vision as in literature and other symbolic structures.

Eschatological vision rather than scientific treatises reveals the organicist world.

Is clarity and certain faith only an eschatological vision, the reality of which can never be enjoyed now?

On the other hand, the New Testament witness to fulfillment is rooted precisely in the eschatological vision and in the belief that the future of the Lord, albeit in a hidden and fragmentary way, is present in our midst in the form of signs, first fruits, foretaste and so on.

This ultimately can only evade the questions of justice and theodicy that the eschatological vision (however inadequately) answered.

I prefer to see in Job's experience an eschatological vision.

Jesus and his disciples expected that this eschatological vision will be realized within their lifetime.

The eschatological vision of the Garden of Life is the promise and hope for the life on earth.

Already I have suggested that the conclusion of Process and Reality gives us something like an eschatological vision.

Thus, in the closing pages of Process and Reality, Whitehead gives us something like an eschatological vision:

The eschatological vision, which expected God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age as the outcome of human effort, has come to be regarded as illusion.

They proclaimed an eschatological vision of a creation that has realized perfect harmony.

The eschatological vision of the just reign of God which the Eucharist provides is far more, radical than any human social program.

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

The eschatological vision of the Revelation 21 is the very overcoming of the Leviathan and God's dwelling with the people of God in justice and peace and in harmony in the universe.

bin Laden has said, «We worship death,» and the ruling regime of Iran wishes to fulfill an eschatological vision to hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam via the use of nuclear arms.

Given our work - oriented suffering, unrest, and joyless play, and given the eschatological visions both of God's playfulness and of our future as «players,» it follows that we are to usher in God's future by living now «spontaneously, unselfishly, as if playing.»

Eschatological visions (such as Altizer's) are challenged by the question of the meaning of basic beliefs such as non-contingent times of triumph, which seems to require the end of cosmic process.

Though Shi'a Islam and Christianity both have eschatological visions, and this opens an avenue for dialogue between Iranian Shi'as and North American Christians, one difference between Shi'a and Christian eschatology is the central role of Shari'a law in Mahdism.

Not exact matches

For Christians however, biblical religion provides a fuller vision of what such participation and stewardship entail and the substance of human flourishing, for which the dominant teleological and eschatological images are a Garden and a City, a New Eden and a New Jerusalem.

The vision of Jeremiah 31:31 - 34 has an eschatological ring.

«60 In spite of his helpful vision of eschatological play, he would seek to instrumentalize play — i.e., to make conscious use of it - for the sake of the revolution.

In a dialectical vision, real being, i.e., the sacred, appears in the eschatological moment only after man's ontological ground in the world has been destroyed.

The source and present location of the saying, as part of the Little Apocalypse, and the probability that the section once circulated without reference to the belief that Jesus was the Son of Man both point toward the probable origin of this type of Christology: it originated among those for whom the vision of Daniel was the authoritative statement of eschatological doctrine.

Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.

Can we not make the judgment that it is precisely this vision of the death of God in Christ that can make possible for us a realization of the deeper meaning of the Christian and eschatological symbol of the dawning of the Kingdom of God?

Inevitably, the orthodox expressions of Christianity abandoned an eschatological ground, and no doubt the radical Christian's recovery of an apocalyptic faith and vision was in part occasioned by his own estrangement from the dominant and established forms of the Christian tradition.

Are we not here in the presence of a fully eschatological and fully christological vision of God?

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.

It is the vision of a new heaven and a new earth, the eschatological projection of perfect order where all people live as a single family.

This vision of God serves as the basis of eschatological hope.

If this is true, then only the vision of the eschatological banquet could be an image of the good, whereas the image of dying for the other — though it is the advent of the good in fallen time — can not itself be the final good, without once more subordinating the person to an impersonal totality, in this case an abstract moral principle.

If the history of revelation has reached its final eschatological phase with Jesus Christ, and if the absolute finality of this world's eschatological phase is not only a mere fact, because God will not reveal anything new, but is contained in the very essence of this phase, because the appearance of the God - man can be surpassed only by the direct vision of God himself — then this quality of the revelation in Christ must also apply to man as a free being.

And it seems to me certain, on the other hand, that by the very fact of making this simple readjustment in our «eschatological» vision we shall have performed an operation having incalculable consequences.

Next, with regard to the very important role of the concept of «the future» in Dr. Altizer's thought, I find a very considerable ambiguity here, as to whether the future as eschatological future is grasped as vision or as analysis of actual existence in faith.

Jesus» teaching is eschatological» in outlook, but it is not necessarily «apocalyptic»; that is, it did not take for granted the visions, dreams, chronological calculations and symbols, the vast array of angelic and other supernatural figures, or the mechanical and deterministic schemes of history which were characteristic of the apocalyptists.

They are functionally identical with biblical visions of joy and hope — the eschatological sense that language and faith may indeed convert and convict and lead men and women to that great imaginative vision of the New Testament: a new heaven and a new earth in place of a crowded and tired planet.

He also commendably puts forward a vision of the unity of all God's actions as fundamentally one work, but differentiated in its many aspects of creation, evolution, personal providence, salvation and redemption in Christ and eschatological fulfilment.

He writes: «While earlier generations of Christian thinkers tended to stress only the «already here» aspects of the New Testament kerygma, more recent scholarship has sought to reintegrate the eschatological «not yet» into their vision.»

In their vision, the human community is perfected in the life of the one Catholic Church, the one Eucharistic communion in grace, and the one eschatological destiny of all men.

If we don't look to heaven, bend the knee and pray to the living God, we will cling to visions in which eschatological destruction, hijacked planes and addictive drugs are our basis for understanding our deepest needs.

If this is the case, then divine freedom, as Young argued, is the basis of eschatological hope and ground for a new vision for humanity.

She seeks to rebut the dispensationalists» views and offer a more deeply biblical vision of Jesus» eschatological kingdom.

His vision unites mystical, apocalyptic, and eschatological themes.

In seeking to bring about this total vision, John Paul in the first part of the catechetical programme wants to establish an «adequate anthropology» which considers original man, historical man and eschatological man.

Simon «saw» — God revealed it to him in an ecstatic vision — that the Father had taken his prophet into the eschatological future and had appointed him the Son of Man.