Sentences with phrase «imminent end»

One of the most discussed financial topics of the past couple years is the seemingly imminent end of the 30 + year bull market in bonds.

That is, they were concerned with the possibility of their own imminent end.

Happy belated birthday and also happy imminent end of school!

on the one hand evangelical programs proclaim the transcience and imminent end of this world, yet feature guests whose sole credential lies in their success in this world.

The weight of the accumulated evidence by no means signals an imminent end to the Bull, but with the start of the «late innings» investors should be cognizant of the appearance of additional «caution flags» and begin to shift behavior to a more selective market opportunities orientation, in our view.

The threat of a trade war adds to a list of risks that are making businesses less willing to invest and create jobs, including the imminent end of European Central Bank stimulus, Britain's planned exit from the bloc and political deadlock in Italy.

But, again, not all are called to Paul's ministry, and not all have Paul's gifts or his sense of an imminent end.

Early Christian communities were also dominated by this sense of the imminent end.

However, the greatness of Christianity was first manifest when its founders, utterly convinced of the imminent end of the world, «gave free reign to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society» (AI 16).

Paul clearly believed in an imminent end of the present world.

Whether Jesus in such passages was speaking of himself or of a heavenly being known only as the Son of man, the early church was so convinced that Jesus was the Messiah that they made this identification.5 Jesus apparently believed in an imminent end of the present age.

Does it shatter our faith in Jesus to think that he may have been mistaken as to the imminent end of the world and the events that would surround it»?

The religious utopianism of the Anabaptists in the Reformation period and of the Levellers and Diggers in England grew out of the Christian expectation of the imminent end of the world and the attempt within the religious community to begin to live the life of the new order here and now.

This inquiry received a sudden jolt when Albert Schweitzer wrote The Quest of the Historical Jesus, a book which showed, first of all, that the attempt to rediscover the historical Jesus had largely failed, and secondly, that the life of Jesus was set in a context largely foreign to us, this being marked by the expectation of the imminent end of the known world.

As he pondered the nature of his ministry at the call of God, it is not surprising that he should have expected an imminent end of the present world and believed that God had called him to be the harbinger of judgment and salvation.

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.

If, now, Jesus not only used the words «son of man» in speaking of the imminent end of the age but also used them (in another sense) in speaking of himself, the belief that he knew himself to be the eschatological Son of Man was certain to develop, once the church, or any significant part of it, came to think of him as the apocalyptic Judge and Savior.

If he really meant what he said (and one is almost certain to decide that he did), was his meaning determined and limited by his expectation of the imminent end of history, about which we were thinking in the preceding lecture?

(2) For most of this century it was assumed by scholars that Jesus» references to the Kingdom of God referred to a future eschatological event: an imminent end to the world as we know it.

He only cries out «eschatologically» in expectation of the «wholly other,» of that transcendence which he powerfully presents before humanity in the form of the imminent end of the world.

In Wright's interpretation, which owes much to the realized eschatological views of C. H. Dodd and G. B. Caird, Jesus did not proclaim the imminent end of the world, if by «world» one means the space - time continuum.

But if the crisis that Jesus announced was not the imminent end of the world, what was it?

He himself was conscious of being «the eschatological prophet»; the crisis that runs throughout his teaching was the imminent end of the world; his historical purpose was to warn his hearers to repent before it was too late and to invite them to ground their existence in God, for the world was soon to pass away.

It is otherwise with Jesus; for neither in the condemning of legalistic piety nor in the requirements of the Sermon on the Mount does reference to the imminent end of the world play any part whatever.

Now it is certainly true that as a result of the expectation of the imminent end of this world, Jesus was not interested in many of the concrete possibilities in which man's obedience can be proved on earth.

The incident concerning the barren fig tree (Mark 11: 12 - 14) may portray this expectation of an imminent end even more vividly, if Jeremias is correct in suspecting an Aramaic imperfect with an originally future significance behind the Greek text.

So long as we speak of an ethic of Jesus in the usual sense, we can not understand how the teacher of a system of ethics can at the same time preach the imminent end of everything in the world.

It is argued that because of this expectation of the imminent end of the world, Jesus had no interest in the different aspects of moral life, in marriage and work, in the value of property and civil order.

While terror - filled accounts do turn up in some literature from the period, they do not dominate it, and Western Europe in the decades following the year 1000 did not generally act like a society paralyzed by fear of the imminent end of the world or disappointed by the failure of its eschatological schedule.

It is now acknowledged that much of the New Testament was written within a context of apocalyptic or eschatological thought, in which the early Christian movement looked towards the imminent end (eschaton) of the present age and the breaking in of the new age (the Kingdom of God).

A recurring theme in the New Testament is the expectation of the imminent end of the present world age and of an approaching judgement, accompanied at times by a graphic and material depiction of the events that are to herald and accompany the end.

Five potential options the Emirates Stadium side can consider if Wenger's reign were to come to an imminent end.

The combination of Schrödinger's name, the intriguing title and a prestigious publisher with a global reach, coupled with the imminent end of the war, meant that the book was widely read and has remained in print ever since.

Instead it's a stately account of the behind - the - scenes legislative drama that Abraham Lincoln had to negotiate to get the slavery - abolishing 13th Amendment passed through Congress before the four - year Civil War's imminent end.

Despite some throwaway jokes about celebrity, the whole thing quickly begins to feel like a gimmick, trading on pre-established personalities and generalized ideas of Hollywood excess, when most of these discussions and problems could pertain to any group of thirtysomething males faced with the imminent end of the world.

And both play on a kind of preemptive nostalgia, drawing bittersweet interest from a nation - wide sentimentality about the imminent end of Obama's time in the Oval.

And there are more today as Land Rover hits London with an eclectic display of Land Rovers from the past 67 years to mark the upcoming auction of the Defender 2,000,000 and the imminent end of 67 years of production.