Sentences with phrase «imminent end of»

It is hard not to imagine the imminent end of an era for CCH UK as well.

Some blame the return of coal on the imminent end of Germany's nuclear power industry.

In lieu of a definitive scientific proposition linking anthropogenic CO2 to the imminent end of the world, the idea of a «consensus» was forged out of necessity (not through scientific discovery), allegedly consisting of «the vast majority of the world's top climate scientists».

On the way to catch up with my family on the island, I met Kai, who was the last of the siblings gathering for the imminent end of their father's voyage.

Andrew Marr: What's interesting — I mean, so, just to be absolutely clear for all those listening, um, of all those theories about the imminent end of the Earth, and the Earth's going to change on its axis and rotate in a different direction — there is no scientific evidence for any of this, as far as you're concerned, absolutely none.

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.

Happy belated birthday and also happy imminent end of school!

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

A third contribution comes out more clearly in Schweitzer's other major work among the considerable number he wrote, The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle.8 There he maintains that Paul's conception of the kingdom, though he expected an imminent end of the world, was far from other - worldly in its bearing on the Christian life.

Whereas, Jesus himself foresaw and taught the imminent end of the world and of history by an abrupt incursion of God into the human scene.

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?

The sayings that demand radical renunciation, however, are not those which stress the imminent end of the age.

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.

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»?

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.

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

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).

Not exact matches

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.

That ended talk of Winkler's imminent demise.

Just like with Brexit, the so - called Wall Street experts scrambled to paint a picture of doom and gloom, warning traders, and markets, that the end of the world is imminent should Trump win, and that stocks could drop by 5 %, 10 % or more should Donald Trump get elected president.

By the end of the day, Bitcoin would plunge below $ 6,000 for the first time since November, leaving Bitcoin bears gleefully predicting the flagship cryptocurrency's imminent demise.

The imminent arrival of the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton this June has helped bounce the high - end Hamptons summer rental market... [more]

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.

It's the end of our era, the twilight of our regency, the time of our imminent disestablishment.

Millennialism began in the very first generation of the church, and there has scarcely been a period of history since which has not witnessed predictions of its own imminent end.

A faith that could look forward to God's becoming all in all could rejoice in the imminent collapse of the reality of the world, thereby celebrating an End that is a repetition of a primordial Beginning.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

Secondly, the belief in the imminent coming of the day of the Lord, so strong in the thought of Paul, and presumably in that of the early church, was bound to wane in intensity by the time two generations of Christians had passed away and the expected end - time had not yet come.

The more the myth of the end - time became elaborated, and thought of as a future event, even though imminent, the more it necessitated imagery appropriate to the future.

The «realized eschatology» of John represents only one of the attempts being made by Christians at the end of the first century to wrestle in a new setting with the heritage of the primitive Jewish hope in the imminent resurrection of the dead.

This led them to assert not only that Jesus expected the imminent and catastrophic end of the world and God's establishment of a new order through his divine messenger, the Son of man, but also that this was the only way in which Jesus conceived the kingdom of God.

We have spoken of the first - century verbal picture of the imminent end - time as a myth.

The end of the present age was imminent.

We see it in the Jesus movement, the charismatic revival with its speaking in tongues, the growth in conservative churches while others decline in numbers and influence, the turn toward Eastern meditative cults, the upsurge once more of belief in an imminent second coming of Christ to put an end to the distresses of our time.

This was almost inevitable when the sense of an imminent end - time and accompanying resurrection receded into the distant future.

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.

These interpreters take the third meaning as normative and assert not only that Jesus expected the imminent and catastrophic end of history and the present world and God's establishment of a new order in which his righteous purpose would be perfectly fulfilled, but also that whenever he spoke of the «kingdom of God» he used the phrase in that sense and in that sense only.

«Deutero - Isaiah's predictions of the imminent fall of Babylon and his glorification of Cyrus as the deliverer of Israel date his prophecies to 550 - 539 BCE, and probably towards the end of this period.

The theme of God's judgment, talk of heaven and hell, and an expectation that the end of history is imminent is far more prominent in American religion than it is in the Bible.

Or we hear that Jesus was merely describing in his hardest sayings what God's will would be for us when the kingdom should have come, not his will for us now; or again, that Jesus» ethic was an «interim ethic,» consciously based upon the assumption that the end of the whole world process was imminent.

(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.

They held these to be mainly the authentic words of Jesus, who predicted an imminent cataclysm and an end of the world which did not occur.

The insistence that the end of the world is imminent and the belief that a disembodied Christianity is vital are equally misguided notions.

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.