Sentences with phrase «points of eschatology»

Only One - Third of Pastors Share «Left Behind» End Times Theology Here's how 1,000 Protestant clergy disagree on the rapture, the Antichrist, and other points of eschatology.

Arguing the fine points of eschatology may not have been quite as pleasurable as dancing, but it came close.

As noted earlier, it is at the point of eschatology that Altizer makes his stand most particularly for the radical uniqueness of Christianity.

Not exact matches

Now it is precisely at this point that we must acknowledge a seemingly unbridgeable gulf between the worlds of Oriental mysticism and Biblical eschatology.

It is doubtful that «realized eschatology» is a good name for this point of view, for it suggests that the end of history has already come and minimizes the futuristic element in the thought of Jesus.

I have presented a similar point of view in Ethics and Eschatology in the Teaching of Jesus,» Journal of Religion, 20:359 - 70.

The literary evidence that the expectation of a «Messiah,» in so far as such an expectation existed at all, took these several forms is indisputable, although at points meager, and can be found cited in Charles and other writers on Jewish eschatology.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

Both Trent and The Catechism of the Catholic Church as well as the 1979 Letter on Certain Questions concerning Eschatology make the point that any sense of punishment «is altogether different from the punishment of the damned.»

Process thinker Francis G. Baur has suggested that the concept of «thresholds» of change beyond which a phenomenon is new in ways that transcend and fulfill its antecedents, but does not cease thereby to be in process towards other previously unimaginable dimensions of being, might mediate at this point between biblical eschatology and process - relational cosmology.6 After all, the eschaton is the completion of God's will for this cosmic epoch, but it is not implied in scripture that there is no life beyond eschaton.

(E.g., Luke 16:19 - 31) Thus, in one of his most cogent pleas for humanitarian service as the test of true religion and the crucial point on which God judges man — «I was hungry» and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me» (Matthew 25:31 - 46)-- the scenery of the parable is the old - fashioned eschatology.

Well, for people who believe the Bible when it says Jesus is coming back, it is quite logical to point out the amount of ignorance they displayed in ignoring a passage that is very, very key to end times studies (eschatology).

This was the main text, so to speak, of Galilean eschatology, a prophecy of the cleansing of the territory from heathen defilement, and of the beginning of the New Age — one thinks of a modern and somewhat remote parallel, the Bahaist «Dawning Point of the Praises of God.»

The starting - point for a right understanding of eschatology is the words and deeds of Jesus.

Of the many points of comparison and contrast that present themselves, we may restrict ourselves to five general areas: evolution, the sacred and the within, eschatology, Christ, and GoOf the many points of comparison and contrast that present themselves, we may restrict ourselves to five general areas: evolution, the sacred and the within, eschatology, Christ, and Goof comparison and contrast that present themselves, we may restrict ourselves to five general areas: evolution, the sacred and the within, eschatology, Christ, and God.