Sentences with phrase «mean final fulfillment»
If being baptized means being raised here and now to new life, then this present sharing in Christ's resurrection can not yet mean final fulfillment, but rather a life of hope which is cognizant of the inadequacy of the present state of things to contain the fullness of God's future.
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Not only does it refute the utopian idea of a simple fulfillment of history, it also refutes the otherworldliness that believes history is robbed of its final meaning in the consummation.
Second, at least some of the elements in the set are understood to be constitutive of a final human fulfillment and / or to be the sole means of achieving that fulfillment.