Sentences with phrase «fulfilled eschatology»

I now believe in fulfilled eschatology (the study of last things), which is a huge change.

An alternative, though, is what is known as preterism or fulfilled eschatology.

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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.

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.