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This is reminiscent of Brown's statement in Life Against Death that «competition between... [current psychoanalysis and current neo-orthodox Protestantism] to produce an eschatology for the twentieth century is the way to serve the life instinct and bring hope to distracted humanity» (p. 233).

If this is true, instead of blaming eschatology for the» impracticableness» of Jesus» ethical teaching, we should thank eschatology for that teaching's majesty and permanent relevance.

Not exact matches

Or, rather, for the modern man and modern woman there is no explanation (though perhaps environmental pollution now replaces the atom bomb in the fully modern eschatology).

The director of information technology at the college where I was about to lecture on eschatology added, «This has been frustrating for everyone.

For example, I still remember in one of my «Eschatology» classes (study of the End Times), three different students were interacting with the professor about what we were learning.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Preschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin PrEschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Hence eschatology is a sickness, a sickness in both a Freudian and a Nietzschean sense, for it arises from what clearly appears to be an infantile or resentful attempt to abolish reality.

Christian eschatology, he answers, has a similar playful focus, i.e., it must be viewed as «totally without purpose, as a hymn of praise for unending joy, as an ever varying round dance of the redeemed in the trinitarian fullness of God, and as the complete harmony of soul and body.»

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

Rather, the person and power of Jesus allow us to come boldly to the throne of grace through our prayers, are the focus of our worship, are a model for how we live, are the means by which we face the tragedies and turmoil all about us, and inform our eschatology.

The eschatology of Jewish apocalyptic and of Gnosticism has been emancipated from its accompanying mythology, in so far as the age of salvation has already dawned for the believer and the life of the future has become a present reality.

For my own part, I can not imagine how di - polar theology could be genuinely Christian so long as it places christology and eschatology at the periphery of faith and understanding, nor can I see how it could ever gain real relevance or power so long as it continues to be unable either to address us or to speak in terms of the imagination.

For example, in Hill's course, the first session focuses on describing eschatology and why it matters.

In most of these themes — the centrality of eschatology, a renewed interest in the church as theological locus, Trinity as determinative for all that is said about God, salvation as participation — Pannenberg is in line with much recent theology.

For example, too often it is assumed that the affection for Jews and Israel is primarily motivated by eschatoloFor example, too often it is assumed that the affection for Jews and Israel is primarily motivated by eschatolofor Jews and Israel is primarily motivated by eschatology.

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.

It is in the epistles of Paul, therefore, that full justice is done for the first time to the principle of» realized eschatology» which is vital to the whole kerygma.

As noted earlier, it is at the point of eschatology that Altizer makes his stand most particularly for the radical uniqueness of Christianity.

Bultmann holds that the mythical eschatology «is untenable for the simple reason that the parousia of Christ never took place as the New Testament expected.

The difficulty of unraveling the elements of futuristic and realized eschatology in the message of Jesus stems from the fact that, far more basic for him than any conceptual scheme of the sequence of events, was the fact of God's present reality to him and for him.

CALL FOR A CULTURE WITH VISION We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or re-establish Eden - with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

He puts into question all forms of taken - for - granted religion whether it is Buddhism, Hinduism, mysticism, or secular «eschatologies» such as Marxism that claims there is a deterministic linear redemptive course to history.

The relevance of Whitehead's thought for eschatology needs further exposition.

This raises two implications for a relational eschatology and the question of ultimate redress of injustice.

Thus, a strong existential - historical thrust results for a relational eschatology.

The eschatology movement recovered the Christological basis for hope....

«The Day of Resurrection» is treated largely as a synonym for «The Day of Judgment» and the resurrection idiom seems to have been used mainly because it was part of the Jewish and Christian eschatology from which it was borrowed.

In my opinion, the only possible approach for a Christian theologian in dealing with the presence of evil is that of Thomas Aquinas, who holds, pace David Hume, that an omnipotent and benevolent God can coexist with evil in His finite creation, but only when the world is viewed both as a totality and under the aegis of eschatology.

The quest for an adequate Christian eschatology has too often become narrowed down to the concern for personal immortality.

This doctrine, his chief contribution to theology, is determinative for his ethics, his view of history, his Christology, his doctrine of the atonement, and his eschatology.

For Niebuhr, then, the symbols of eschatology express the faith that God's final act is to perfectly justify and sanctify history; God's final word to history is the perfect fulfillment of grace.

There were others who had to be refuted as false teachers for saying that the resurrection had already taken place.21 The New Testament Apocalypse represented still another kind of development, though one more in keeping with the earlier Jewish eschatology.

It is doubtful that «realized eschatology» is a good name for this point of view, for it suggests that the end of history has already come and minimizes the futuristic element in the thought of Jesus.

As Christianity became more divorced from her Jewish origins and more immersed in the Hellenistic culture of the Gentile world, the Jewish - cum - Christian eschatology, involving a future resurrection of the dead, was bound to be severely challenged — and this for two reasons.

You interpret eschatology, for example, as the word of the age to come now realized in the words and deeds of Jesus.

The mythical eschatology is untenable for the simple reason that the parousia of Christ never took place as the New Testament expected.

Indeed, eschatology is not at all concerned with the meaning and goal of secular history, for secular history belongs to the old aeon, and therefore can have neither meaning nor goal.

However, I do believe that ideas of biblical eschatology, of a final consummation of the human drama, of heaven and hell, have primary relevance for history itself.

On the other hand, Matthew compensates for this change of emphasis by a marked development of» futurist eschatology.»

As I got older, I rejected not only that notion but the entire dispensational eschatology on which those ideas are based (I will save my rant for later on why dispensational in any form should have no place in Pentecostal churches).

For «Eschatology is the doctrine concerned with the limits and boundaries of our living, in time and existence, toward which at every moment our whole lives tend.»

Eschatology and ethics meet in this basic issue, for it involves not only the scope of God's love and favor and of our responsibility but the question of eternal destiny.

Jewish eschatology is fluid, and, although the general view is that the reign of the Messiah will last for ever, there are parts of it in which the Messiah has a limited reign.

It is not a basic theology for theologians, for it doesn't contain sections one would normally find in an introductory theology book, such as theology proper, or eschatology.

He challenged the church and the state to live by their eschatologies and to provide meaningful freedom for black people.

It may well be true that the whole meaning of eschatology is for us fulfilled in the revelation in Christ — that is, in the active presence in Christ as known within the church — of the eternal order, the kingdom of God: the Fourth Gospel has some such conception.

I rejected a moment ago Dodd's view that for Jesus the whole meaning of eschatology was fulfilled in the revelation of the sovereign righteousness of God which was taking place in him; I find it impossible to deny the element of the temporal in Jesus» thought about the judgment and the kingdom.

The process - relational model of God as the most extensive exemplification of primordial creativity, with every worldly occasion in its own process of becoming; the process - relational concept of God as the principle of order channeling the world's becoming toward ever richer and more harmonious experience (the primordial nature); and the process - relational concept of God's preservation of every worldly occasion in God's own everlasting becoming (the consequent nature), with each such occasion evaluated and positioned for its greatest possible contribution to the divine life — these perspectives on divine reality which process - relational thought claims to find exemplified in the very nature of things are separately and together congruent with and supportive of the biblical images and events which describe the «already» in inaugurated eschatology.»

Process thinker Francis G. Baur has suggested that the concept of «thresholds» of change beyond which a phenomenon is new in ways that transcend and fulfill its antecedents, but does not cease thereby to be in process towards other previously unimaginable dimensions of being, might mediate at this point between biblical eschatology and process - relational cosmology.6 After all, the eschaton is the completion of God's will for this cosmic epoch, but it is not implied in scripture that there is no life beyond eschaton.

I should mention how ironic I found it that a title - search for material relating to eschatology in a process - relational mode yielded a plethora of titles dealing with the question of personal immortality, but a relative dearth of material dealing with the eschaton as a new corporate order.