Sentences with phrase «future eschaton»

Here, we find no awareness of the Fall (except as a means of affirming total personal responsibility), no doctrine of sin as opposed to evil, no past or future eschaton, no atonement (except as a moral example), and no Incarnation (except as a «renewal» of the sense of the present immediacy of God).

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He clearly means to accomplish this metaphysical task via a final eschaton, that future reconciling of time and eternity in which a whole is formed that can give meaning to all moments of history.

Polk's article correctly zeroes in on one of the major challenges that Pannenberg's doctrine faces: how to preserve the real openness of the future in light of his insistence on a completed and changeless immanent Trinity, a final eschaton, and the primacy of the future?

Whether this future is conceived as eternal life for the individual, or a new heaven and a new earth for mankind, or as the conquest of evil in or beyond human history, the trajectory is toward the future, the eschaton.

If in the Old Testament, in Judaism, and in the New Testament, the unworldly takes the form of a future hope, of eschata — «last things» in the traditional sense — that is only one among other possible conceptions of man's relation to the unworldly, though no doubt it enshrines a genuine insight into human existence, namely that from a human perspective the eschaton can only be future.

The word «eschaton» means «end times» or «last things,» but it has never simply involved concern for a far - off future, because, as Jesus and his followers realized, what we believe about the future dramatically affects how we live in the present.