Sentences with phrase «traditional eschatology»

In retrospect, it is easy to see why this softening of the demands of traditional eschatology was bound to fail.

Its terms were borrowed from the traditional eschatology of Judaism.

Not exact matches

The renewed study of the Bible initiated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries led to the discovery that many elements of the traditional Christian eschatology were not clearly to be found there.

John Macquarrie has noted that «much of the traditional Christian eschatology, whether conceived as the cosmic drama of the indefinite future or as the future bliss of the individual after death, has rightly deserved the censures of Marxists and Freudians who have seen in it the flight from the realities of present existence».10

It needs only a slight acquaintance with the traditional Jewish eschatology to recognize that these writers are all using language which implies that the eschaton, the final and decisive act of God, has already entered human experience.