Sentences with phrase «meaning of salvation history»

But the ineradicable temporal limitation is really only a preliminary dilemma, and beneath it is concealed a deeper meaning of salvation history — namely, the attainment of the «fullness of time» in the realm of terminology and myths.

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In salvation history, existence is given its center of meaning by the intervention of God in a particular history.

«26 For Barth, the meaning and basis of the Sabbath is thus also eschatological, for by pointing to the special history of the covenant and salvation, the Sabbath necessarily points to its ultimate consummation in history.27

Karl Barth draws a similar conclusion, linking the meaning of the holy day to «salvation history and its eschatological significance.»

I prefer to avoid the word «unique,» with its several shades of meaning, but if it is to be used I wish to affirm the uniqueness of the whole event Jesus Christ, the whole Judeo - Christian «salvation - history,» as the supreme revelation and enactment of God's redeeming love: a unique event, with a unique effect.

The principal means of this encounter is the liturgy, in which the great events of salvation history are dramatized and celebrated.

It's not that they cross is just some necessary step to accomplishing some religious plan of salvation — an abstract scheme that leaves Jesus politically meaningless... It is a completely different way to view the world, success, and the meaning of history.»

The Bible was therefore believed to reveal without error the origin of the world, the meaning of history, the moral laws by which all should live, and the only path to salvation.

For much of Christian history believers affirmed that apart from Christ there is no salvation, and they understood this to mean that those who did not have faith in Christ were condemned to eternal torments.