Sentences with phrase «look to past fulfillment»
In History and Hermeneutics, Carl E. Braaten criticizes Bultmann for not recognizing the «ontological priority of historical reality,» and for refusing to accept the fact that it is «the nature of faith to look to past fulfillment as well as future possibility.»
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In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.
The deposit of revelation is said to be finished or fixed, but this can be a salvific teaching only if it means that there is sufficient evidence in our past history to convince us that we live within the horizon of a promise which by its nature always looks to the future for fulfillment.
We continually recount our common past and seek to incorporate it ever more coherently within our memory, but we concretely experience revelation only by looking forward along with this past to the fulfillment of God's promise.