Sentences with phrase «historical consummation»

In these theologies a historical consummation is expected which is identified with the age of the Spirit, which follows in succession the age of the Father and of the Son.

The culminating point of historical consummation is a threat to the indifferent, the ambitious, the selfish, the prejudiced.

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It is thus to be contrasted to the religious and Eastern - mystical looking backward from concrete, present historical reality to a primordial blessed Oneness of mystic peace as the final consummation.

Process theology shares with Metz, Moltmann and Sölle an unwillingness or inability to participate in this confident anticipation of a consummation of the historical process.

Process thought manifests «an inability to participate in this confident anticipation of a consummation of the historical process.

Much has been made in the past decade or so of the historical - redemptive narrative: the belief that the story of God and His interactions with His people fit into four categories (or stages) we call Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation (or shalom).

These people understood the importance of Church history as the portion of the historical - redemptive narrative located between Redemption and Consummation, not just blank pages between the end of Revelation and the return of Christ in space and time.

It provides a principle for interpreting the meaning of historical movements, whether the end of history will be failure or consummation.

We are told of the fullness and the Second Coming, but of the nature of these things and their relation to the historical process we have no idea whatever: In the only sense that our imaginations can grasp, the task starts all over again with every baptism, every birth, and reaches its eschatological consummation on every deathbed.

According to Dr. Altizer, «Ahab's mad quest for the white whale can be seen as faith's response to the death of God, wherein the man of faith becomes the murderer of God so as to make possible a historical actualization of God's death in Jesus, and thus an apocalyptic consummation of God's original self - sacrifice or self - negation.»