Sentences with phrase «eschatology looked»
His program of a thoroughgoing interpretation of the Christian message under the rubrics of history and eschatology looked like another interpretive tour de force, another exercise in killing the Oedipal father (or fathers, in the form of Barth and Bultmann) so that the children are free to pursue their own projects.
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Its uniqueness consists in its forward - looking eschatology as opposed to the backward - looking mysticism of «religion.»
One may need to look up words not used in ordinary conversation to understand what Berger means when he writes: «the problem of theodicy was solved in terms of eschatology» or «one should not confuse epistemology (i.e., knowledge) with historical gratitude.»
This religious attitude of looking toward the future for deliverance is known as eschatology.