It offers the opportunity to study several different aspects of
kingship in ancient Egypt, including the connection between the pharaoh and the gods.
-- I think we're meant to see that stripping away the Panther's power and calling for challengers is a nod to ancient tradition, but no one has SERIOUSLY challenged
the kingship in ages and no one really expects it to happen (which is why Shuri raises her hand and makes a joke of it, and then it's a surprise when M'Baku, the leader of the outsider tribe, shows up to make an actual challenge).
Michael Bay's
kingship in Hollywood is proof you'll never go broke by underlining the obvious.
Yet the citizens of Brak were already using imported materials to make fine goods in large workshops, including a marble - and - obsidian chalice and a stamp seal with the image of a lion being caught in a net — a classic symbol of
kingship in the ancient Near East.
The ensemble of marriage, family, home and church preserved Christian
kingship in a world of democratic republics.
How can we celebrate
kingship in church and still function as committed citizens in a republic?
In all this, too, it is possible to discern the traits of
kingship in the portrait of man, expressed not only through the naming ritual but also in the ancient cultic symbolism of the tending and watering of the tree of life, a sacral duty of the king.
Thus while process theism can only do partial justice to many of the images of divine
kingship in the Bible, and none to some, it may be the model most appropriate to the final image emerging from this tradition.
The wisemen's recognition of
kingship in a powerless infant, the angels» choice of humble shepherds to whom to announce the news, Jesus» birth as an outcast in a stable — all these point to a very different kind of king, to a power and truth that transcend worldly power and the socially acceptable status quo.
Sacral
Kingship in Ancient Israel (Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 1956)
Not exact matches
May his
Kingship be established
in your lifetime and
in your days, and
in the lifetime of the entire household of Israel, swiftly and
in the near future; and say, Amen.
In his book, Kingship of God, Martin Buber argues that Yahweh is different from the other middle eastern gods in that he demanded control in all areas of human life, not just the religiou
In his book,
Kingship of God, Martin Buber argues that Yahweh is different from the other middle eastern gods
in that he demanded control in all areas of human life, not just the religiou
in that he demanded control
in all areas of human life, not just the religiou
in all areas of human life, not just the religious.
In Jeremiah's time the people's understanding of
kingship was tainted by human kings who had led them to the point of imminent destruction and deportation.
In the story of Jesus,
kingship is recast.
When God's
kingship is accepted by an individual, it has
in a sense come for him.
In Jesus» thought the divine kingship is here already, to be acknowledged in the doing of God's wil
In Jesus» thought the divine
kingship is here already, to be acknowledged
in the doing of God's wil
in the doing of God's will.
Because it is intractable he simply dodges the
kingship of acclaim, awaiting instead the coronation that will be his
in his supreme hour, a coronation which by its quality of contempt suggests, even partially reveals, the many - leveled mystery of the Son of Man.
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.
Yet it is more than a stamp; it is a burden laid upon him which makes him wholly acceptable, vulnerable, disponible, and yet withdraws him to the task of «giving his flesh for the life of the world»: almost
in the moment when an outburst of popular devotion would bestow upon him the splendor of
kingship, a
kingship of popular acclaim which he refused without seeming even to consider attempting to manage it.
The NEB reads, «and now I vest
in you the
kingship which my Father vested
in me»; the NAB reads, «I for my part assign to you the dominion my Father has assigned to me.»
It is an idea absolutely impossible to express
in any word: «reign» or «
kingship» would be too abstract and «theocracy» puts the emphasis
in the wrong place.
In the power and wealth of Herod and Caesar, of
kingship and empire?
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 Chie
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 Chie
in Chief.
God's choice of Israel, therefore, is not complete
in itself but it is a movement
in history, pointing to fulfillment; and this is true of all institutions — circumcision, covenant, passover, priesthood and its sacrifice,
kingship, assembly or synagogue.
This paradox is that of the
kingship of God itself: it stands
in the historical conflict between those who bear the message and those who resist it.
Paul,
in contrast to Jesus, represents a decided turning away from the Biblical conception of the
kingship of God and the immediacy between God and man.
After Moses, the most serious attempt to realize the
kingship of God was
in the period of the judges.
The God of Isaiah whom one knows to be Lord of all is not more spiritual or real than the God of the Covenant of whom one knows only that «He is King
in Jeshurun,» for already He makes the unconditional demand of the genuine
kingship.
Jesus penetrates to the heart of the theological issue and discusses the nature of
kingship, affirming his true
kingship, denying that he is a king
in Pilate's sense.
The contrast is evident
in Sojourners» concocted «Celebration of Yahweh's
Kingship,» held annually on the Fourth of July.
The three offices may be summed up as revelation, atonement, and
kingship, and these
in turn may be understood as three mutually related aspects of one work,
in which each includes the others.
Whereas the East was interested
in Wisdom, the divine Law, and the
Kingship of God, the less abstractly minded, more concretely thinking and believing West — it will be said — demanded the adoration of a person, of a divine - human being, a Son of God, as the center of its religious loyalties.
The Bible often couches its message
in the metaphor of
kingship, hierarchy, obedience, masters and slaves.
In his significant work Christianity in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianit
In his significant work Christianity
in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianit
in World History, a prominent theologian Arend Theodor van Leeuwen has argued that the idea of separating out the things of God from the things of people
in such a way as to deny the divine nature of kingship was first formulated in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianit
in such a way as to deny the divine nature of
kingship was first formulated
in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianit
in ancient Israel and then became a major motif of Christianity.
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.
He then goes beyond the mere recognition that Jesus is an innocent victim (hardly the first or last
in human history) to acknowledge Jesus»
kingship, asking that Jesus remember him when he comes into his rule.
After nearly four hundred years of the
kingship the Judean people still refused to be regarded as pawns
in the game of power politics; they had far - reaching rights — even against their kings — which they would not surrender.
Even the legislation
in the Book of Deuteronomy, which a moment ago we found guilty of marked favoritism toward the priests, accepts the
kingship as a valid institution.
When we conclude the Lord's Prayer with the words, «For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,» we affirm this divine
kingship and our trust
in God's ultimate authority and sovereignty.
In its most elemental meaning the kingdom of God means
kingship, the just, righteous, and loving rule of God over his world.
It was the
kingship of Yahweh that had constituted Israel, and Israel would survive only as that imperium continued, overarching and overruling the power of human kings.1 So when the prophets said, «Thus says the LORD,» they were representing the ancient, original, final, and legitimate authority
in Israel.
The radicalism of such thinking, sufficiently evident
in the western history of the
kingship, is even more astonishing against the background of the cultic concepts of royalty prevalent
in Israel.
Note also
in this prelude to
kingship, I Samuel 1 - 8, the following features of the narrative.
72) the ideal of righteous
kingship under Yahweh which had its origin and, always
in tradition, its supreme expression
in the Davidic covenant.6
This remarkable section on David's full accession to political
kingship over the tribes of Israel and the land of Canaan is summed up and also favorably judged
in the words of II 8:15:
Those who acknowledge his
kingship and seek to do his will already belong to his «kingdom»; and this, according to this understanding, is the only meaning the term has
in Jesus» authentic teaching.
That Jesus was aware with every breath he drew of the eternal
kingship of God everyone will agree; that he believed men could come even now
in some real sense and measure under the righteous and loving rule of God is almost equally clear; and only by the most tortuous methods of interpreting the Gospels can one escape the conclusion that Jesus expected the kingdom of God as a future supernatural order.
The objective of this corporate, horizontally constituted
kingship is the deliverance of the creation from its bondage, the redemption of the old moral order and all who participate
in it.
Only after this work has successfully been completed will the Christ return the
kingship to God and become subordinate to God, as Paul states
in I Corinthians 35:28.
Attendantly, from within this millenarian orientation, Jesus himself was identified with the bar nasha of Daniel 7:13 — 14, a type of new Adam, who, on the basis of his appearance before the Ancient of Days, recovered the characteristics that distinguish the human being created
in the image and likeness of God: dominion, glory, and
kingship (see Ps.