The kingdom of God is thus the eternal
kingship of God; it is the present and mighty power of God, to be fully revealed only in the imminent future, but visible now in its anticipatory workings to anyone with eyes to see and heart to understand.
It offers the opportunity to study several different aspects of
kingship in ancient Egypt, including the connection between the pharaoh and the gods.
Obviously, something has to happen to make Thor leave the people he has just assumed
kingship over, and later be found by the Guardians of the Galaxy.
If he was then boldly taking the battle
for kingship of British contemporary art to Sir Nicholas Serota's doorstep, this latest move could, perhaps, be seen as a retreat.
Sacral Kingship in Ancient Israel (Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 1956)
And with the
Davidic kingship, Israel takes her place as one of the notable nations of the world.
Just as
kingship symbolism functioned for 1,500 years both as a language of cultural engagement and as a critical tool against all earthly kings, so republican symbolism can provide us with a language of transcendence as well as immanence for our own time.
He changes the notion of
kingship by riding on a colt rather than a horse.
The
eternal kingship of God implied for him the eventual vindication of God's righteousness in the end or beyond the end of history, and implied meantime the possibility of man's accepting and submitting himself to God's rule.
23:1 - 6, Col. 1:13 - 20, Luke 23:35 - 43) will not allow us to push Christ's
kingship off...
Since the Messiah was expected to re-establish the kingdom of David in keeping with the prophecies (see p. 97), and since Jesus was evidently not interested in
worldly kingship or in driving out the Romans, this is a very good question.
The time when this recognition of God's
kingship takes place is that of the Covenant at Mount Sinai.
He said
kingship appointment is not an ordinary one but being permitted by yoruba culture and tradition as the king rules on behalf of the gods and is therefore accountable not just to men but to the gods as well for good governance and sustenance of the legacies of his ancestors.
Albert sees through the pretensions of
kingship even as he is impelled to enact them.
Isaiah becomes one with the cult prophet, his words reflecting living cultic conditions, the core of which is the institution of sacral kingship.10
The narrator (or editor) responds differently, however, suggesting the political solution of
kingship instead of the anarchy of the judges (Judg.
In the United States, the presidency is still just a job, not a
sacred kingship; and the president is a public employee, not a crowned monarch or Lecturer in Chief.
The current wave of dystopian young adult fiction, for example, serves the same kind of public liturgical function for progressive individualism as the New Year liturgy of Marduk's victory over Tiamat once did for a strong
Babylonian kingship.
From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the
timeless kingship, or kingly rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and lived in by accepting God's sovereign rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and love for its coming.
Nevertheless, the prophets remained the primary representatives of the
continuing kingship or imperium of Yahweh.
Perhaps he felt that the title had acquired too many connotations of
earthly kingship.
After kingship was established in Judah and Ephraim, such enlarged ideas were given visible form and practical effect by alliances between princely houses.
«One thing that is consistent throughout the Hebrew Scriptures is that God was deconstructing, redefining, and
reclaiming kingship,» write Claiborne and Haw (p. 37).
Similarly, elements of divine
kingship tend to develop around strong political leaders whenever they appear.
How can we
celebrate kingship in church and still function as committed citizens in a republic?
The conflict between the intended orderly cosmos and the ever - threatening chaos was given symbolic expression in a combat myth, in which a young hero god, or divine warrior, was charged by the gods with the task of keeping the forces of chaos at bay, and in return was
awarded kingship over the world.3
The ensemble of marriage, family, home and church preserved
Christian kingship in a world of democratic republics.
Monarchical kingship treats us like members of a household represented solely by its head, while republican order assumes the equal head - ship of all, each professing her or his own conviction about the common good in an arena of debate.
It is also the focus of the central mystery of the Rosary, the crowning with thorns; the tragedy of
Divine kingship is rejected, the all wise plan of love is spurned.
So long as we think in terms of a kingdom we have to think in terms of a king; and in the conception of
kingship there is always something remote and distant and withdrawn.