Sentences with phrase «eschatology before»

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If anything, I'm trying to get a group of readers / people to explore eschatology who never would have touched the subject before.

Thus his eschatology involves an «indirect» christology: «If the kingdom is so near that it casts this shadow, then the «observer» no longer has it before him, in the sense that he could still observe it from a certain distance; rather is he at that instant fully claimed.

Systematic Theology can be read as a much fuller account of the vision first put forward in Revelation as History twenty - five years before: Eschatology remains the key theological locus; Jesus continues to be understood as the anticipatory realization of the final reign of God over all things; Christianity is rational, though this claim is somewhat chastened.

For, contrary to much Western opinion, Zen also contains a species of eschatology, in which worlds are passing away and the Great Death of cataclysmic change must take place before the New Order can enter in.

This is natural, since the tradition had undergone considerable development before it was embodied in our canonical Gospels, and during this time it had been exposed to the influence of what we may call the «futurist eschatology,» as distinct from the» realized eschatology» which gives its character to the earliest preaching, as well as to the earliest tradition of the teaching of Jesus.

Before eschatology is about the end of things as finis — a concept that must appear mythological to many moderns, and contradictory to Whiteheadians, it is about the end of things as telos.