Sentences with phrase «historical events of the death»

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There are only a handful of historical events that I remember that vividly, and for some reason Jobs» death in 2011 is one of them.

Also, we know its a historical fact that no part of the New Testament was actually written by anyone who ever met Jesus or witnessed the events first hand; much of the New Testament was written 200 years after the death of Jesus.

If a person must believe in the death of resurrection of Jesus, is it sufficient to believe in the historical facts of these events, or does a person also have to believe in substitutionary atonement?

This means that we shall understand the death of God as an historical event: God has died in our time, in our history, in our existence.

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

The crucifixion, viewed simply as an historical event, is the ultimate evil: the betrayal, denial, unjust and cowardly condemnation, blaspheming and brutalising, flogging, public humiliation and torturing to death of the Son of God himself.

To confess the death of God is to speak of an actual and real event, not perhaps an event occurring in a single moment of time or history, but notwithstanding this reservation an event that has actually happened both in a cosmic and in a historical sense.

Questions of historical events are difficult to be «certain» about, but when it comes to historical certainty, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus is more «certain» than most other historical events.

Furthermore, the very ground of Christian theology calls upon the Christian theologian to recognize the death of God as an historical event.

Therefore faith must come to know the death of God as an historical event witnessing to the advent of a new form of the Word.

The writers insisted that God's Word is about something and what it is most immediately about is a historical event: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the inbreaking of the kingdom he inaugurates.

«While noting that the burial tradition may be simply a postulate «derived from the fact of Jesus» death or knowledge of Jewish purity concerns» rather than the memory of an historical event, Luedemann's own preference, influenced in part by John 19:31 - 37 and Acts 13:20, is that Jesus was buried by Jews who were not his followers.

Christianity is a dialectically monotheistic faith in which the nature and purposes of the Ultimate are illumined by historical events culminating, though by no means terminating, in the life, death and resurrection of the Jewish teacher Jesus, called by faith the Christ.

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If historical actions were only isolated events the life and death of Jesus would be just an incident without effect or power; but if history is constituted by remembered and interpreted events, then what Jesus has done enters into the texture of history.

«The radical Christian,» Altizer wrote in his 1966 manifesto The Gospel of Christian Atheism, «proclaims that God has actually died in Christ, that this death is both a historical and cosmic event.»

Those who defend the view that the resurrection of Jesus was an historical event in the physical world unintentionally detract from the significance of the death of Jesus, the real center of Christian proclamation, by making it dependent upon a subsequent event.

Although the actual event occurred in one place, at one time, and was limited by all the conditions of a historical setting, Jesus» death is understood to be beneficial for all people, in all places, at all times.

But I do see the divine priority, God's prevenient guidance, in the event as a whole — the history of Old Testament Israel, the birth, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus, and the coming into being of his church — and in its effect, which we variously describe as the supreme revelation of God's love, the redemption of the world, the coming into being of the church.15 Indeed it is precisely God's prevenient guidance that makes of this entire historical sequence, including its climax in Jesus, one single event, producing one single effect.

That is, historical events such as Jesus praying to the Father or the Father abandoning the crucified Jesus to death constitute the very relations of the first two persons of the Trinity; they do not merely mirror in time some other relations taking place in a separated eternity.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

34 Chapter 4 is entitled «The Self - Annihilation of God,» where Altizer states that «to confess the death of God is to speak of an actual and real event... a historical and a cosmic event, and, as such, it is a final and irrevocable event.»

Is the preacher, then, to move away from historical considerations in search of the immediacy Bultmann has found in regarding the preaching event itself as the eschatological occurrence, the end - time for the man who hears Christ address him in the sermon with the threat of death or the promise of life?

The decisive ground of our faith that that purpose exists is the historical revelation, which began with the calling of Israel and culminated in the great event — the life and death and rising again of Jesus and the coming into being of the community of Christ the Lord.

Western Christianity has tried to get God off the hook for creating so brutal a world by contending that the introduction of suffering and death into the world was a historical event, not the ontological precondition of existence.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

In the biblical tradition, our resurrection is a participation in Christ's resurrection, construed as an historical event which contravenes the historical reality of his death, and thus — in Whiteheadian terms — interrupts the perpetual perishing of occasions.

Only when preaching the «cross» means proclaiming Jesus» daily existence as accepting his death and living out of transcendence is it the proclamation of a really historical event.

Now all of the elements we have proposed as essentially constituting the event are historical elements: the man Jesus, his life, teaching, death and resurrection, the creation of the church by the Spirit are all truly historical.

My colleague, Thomas Altizer, likes to say, for example, that the death of God is an historical event, that it has happened in our time and that we should welcome, even will it, not shrink from it.

The minimalists are those who do not think that these narratives point to any analogous historical event, who maintain that in fact there were no post-mortem appearances of Jesus at all, no experiences of Jesus after his death by the apostles.

The decisive ground of our faith that it exists is the historical revelation, which began with the calling of Israel and culminated in the great event — the life and death and rising again of Jesus and the coming into being of the community of Christ the Lord.

Sir Landry (Tom Cullen) heads up the Knights Templar's search for the Holy Grail in the historical drama series about the the events that will eventually lead to the deaths of the knights on Friday the 13th, 1307.

Using a range of adjectives to describe extreme sports and then a look at the historical event of Franz Reichelt jumping to his death from the Eiffel tower.

Language and landscape combine powerfully in this tense exploration of life and death, parts of which are based on historical events.

The prewar world of New York City in 1910 comes to life through the colorful social settings and real historical events that abound in Mariah Fredericks» mystery, A Death of No Importance.

Helen Rappaport's book is supported by meticulous research and numerous source documents; she recreates the historical period beautifully... The book excels in informing the reader of the world events, which led to this family's death and the all too momentous events which followed the end of the Romanov's and Russia's history... This is history that reads like an engrossing novel, and once you have made the acquaintance of the four Romonov sisters, you were never, ever forget them.

Many of Lemmerz's works focus on taboo - related themes, taken from contemporary, as well as historical events, where suffering, death, identity, and existence are central themes.

Richter's history painting, however, does not aim to reproduce specific historical events but rather seeks to capture a particular contemporary spirit, marked by the death of the great political utopias.

He is nominated for a solo exhibition at Tate St Ives featuring paintings and collages inspired by historical and contemporary events, such as The Death of David Kelly (2008).

* Dexter Dalwood — for work inspired by historical and contemporary political events Dexter Dalwood, 49, who paints scenes of well - known deaths such as those of rocker Kurt Cobain and British scientist David Kelly.

Yes, the Fall of the Roman Empire; the (European) Black Death Plague; and other grand historical events — all caused by cold weather.