Sentences with phrase «take eschatology»

I then wondered: To what extent do Adventists take their eschatology seriously?

Yet if we take eschatology in its broadest sense as equivalent to «heaven,» and heaven again as equivalent to the «realm of God,» Jesus announced an eschatological structure in his proclamation of the Kingdom.

Not exact matches

It was the first public evidence of the project that had gradually taken shape in my mind during the preceding years: to work out on the level of systematic theology the ancient Israelitic view of reality as a history of God's interaction with his creation, as I had internalized it from the exegesis of my teacher Gerhard von Rad, after I had discovered how to extend it to the New Testament by way of Jewish eschatology and its developments in Jesus» message and history.

I can have differences of opinion with my friends about health care or global warming or eschatology or women in church leadership without taking it personally or holding a grudge.

It is finding new ways, in a new situation, tentatively yet critically, to rework doctrines such as Christology, pneumatology, eschatology and ecclesiology, taking into account the new questions that have arisen.

For, contrary to much Western opinion, Zen also contains a species of eschatology, in which worlds are passing away and the Great Death of cataclysmic change must take place before the New Order can enter in.

Bultmann holds that the mythical eschatology «is untenable for the simple reason that the parousia of Christ never took place as the New Testament expected.

He puts into question all forms of taken - for - granted religion whether it is Buddhism, Hinduism, mysticism, or secular «eschatologies» such as Marxism that claims there is a deterministic linear redemptive course to history.

A liberationist approach to eschatology includes the empowerment of oppressed persons to take charge of their own lives.

There were others who had to be refuted as false teachers for saying that the resurrection had already taken place.21 The New Testament Apocalypse represented still another kind of development, though one more in keeping with the earlier Jewish eschatology.

The mythical eschatology is untenable for the simple reason that the parousia of Christ never took place as the New Testament expected.

Is there an eschatology which can take into account both the biblical record and the deepest insights of our faith?

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.

Mr. Belousek does, however, take us close to the theological heart of the matter, which is indeed one of eschatology.

I rejected a moment ago Dodd's view that for Jesus the whole meaning of eschatology was fulfilled in the revelation of the sovereign righteousness of God which was taking place in him; I find it impossible to deny the element of the temporal in Jesus» thought about the judgment and the kingdom.

Nevertheless Werner proceeds to examine other doctrines and teachings: the Law, the gospel, faith, sin, flesh and spirit, sacramental teaching, eschatology, the view taken of the primitive apostles, the attitude toward the Jewish people, also that toward the heathen; and he concludes with an examination of the vocabularies of the two writers.

• Christian eschatology speaks of «the things that must soon take place» (Rev. 22:6).

Realized eschatology has been taken seriously.

(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.

Even if steps are taken to avoid psychologizing, to give due emphasis to the eschatology, etc., the fundamental weakness remains the fact that the deliberate elevation of a historically reconstructed figure to the central concern of faith must inevitably lead to the confusion of two quite separate functions: the reconstruction of a historical figure and what we shall call the construction of a faith - image.