Sentences with phrase «eschatology so»

When we start to approach the brand of eschatology so widely purveyed in current religious media and books, the first obstacle is the language itself.

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One doesn't hear much eschatology in my mainline denomination these days because most of us have got it so good.

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.

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.

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.

It is surely possible to think that Whitehead's understanding of the consequent nature of God or the kingdom of heaven is implicitly if partially grounded in a genuine eschatology, and is so because it apprehends a transmutation of evil into good by way of a cosmic and universal process.

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.

What do you make of the theology of Benedict XVI and its relation to the subjects you've worked on: theological language, ecumenism, eschatology and so on?

Questions of eschatology in Christian theology quickly become questions of protology, and so we must ask how this picture of a beatific vision absent nonhuman life affects how we are to think of creation in the first place.

It would be necessary to distinguish, at the interior of this general schema of the promise, prophecy and its intrahistorical hope of later eschatologies, and, among them, the Apocalypses, properly so called, which carry beyond history the final term of all threat and all expectation.

It is not so much a Gospel of» realized eschatology,» as a new and higher code of ethics.

(Dodd has used the term «realized eschatology» to designate his position set forth most clearly in The Parables of the Kingdom [New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935]-RRB- and in so doing conceals somewhat, it seems to me, its essential character.

The literary evidence that the expectation of a «Messiah,» in so far as such an expectation existed at all, took these several forms is indisputable, although at points meager, and can be found cited in Charles and other writers on Jewish eschatology.

That is why liberation theology is so attentive to eschatology.

This last aspect of Altizer's eschatology is not clearly developed in his essay; however, it must not be lost sight of if we are to avoid the error of thinking that he proposes that the present immanence of the Incarnation process is the final condition of God's dying to transcendence so as to be all in all.

There is no doubt at all that we find it in the historical Christendom which abandoned the real futurist eschatology of the New Testament and internalized human salvation, at the same time banishing the future of God to a world beyond this one, so that redemption is no longer seen in the kingdom of God, the «new heaven and the new earth,» but now only in the saving of the individual soul for the heaven of the blessed.

This was the main text, so to speak, of Galilean eschatology, a prophecy of the cleansing of the territory from heathen defilement, and of the beginning of the New Age — one thinks of a modern and somewhat remote parallel, the Bahaist «Dawning Point of the Praises of God.»

The so - called «transmuted eschatology» of the Fourth Gospel has to be viewed in connection with the rigorous cosmic eschatology which is one of the features of its rugged dualism.

The role of Moses in first century eschatology was not so well developed though some rabbis taught that he, too, went directly into heaven.

But if we seek so to explain the preaching of Jesus, we should have only a psychological explanation, not an insight into the inner relationship of eschatology and demand.

Wherever Tillich is now, his theological solution to the problem of «afterlife» was to redefine eschatology existentially, so that «last things» became «most ultimate things,» without necessarily focusing on personal death.

I myself recalled having heard a number of Dallas faculty members and graduates in recent years distance themselves from «hardline» dispensationalism, reducing C. I. Scofield's highly articulated framework to virtually two principles: the literal reading of the text is to be preferred unless strong evidence indicates otherwise, and Israel and the church remain distinct in biblical chronology (and so in eschatology) to the end.

The eschatology movement recovered the Christological basis for hope, indeed brilliantly so in the case of Moltmann.

So, for example, T. W. Manson claimed that `... if God did in fact speak to us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus it is vitally important to know as fully and as accurately as possible what sort of life and death and resurrection became the medium of divine revelation», (T. W. Manson, «The Life of Jesus: Some Tendencies in Present - day Research», The Background of the New Testament and its Eschatology, ed.

The eschatological is certainly present in John, and so is the emphasis on the premonitions of eschatology in the Old Testament.