If history is driven by inexorable forces, and if we can have no confidence in
an ultimate consummation of the evolutionary process, then must we not seek meaning here?
the ultimate consummation of this reality may not occur in their lifetimes, so they must continue to work and persevere, until the end comes.
It taught that the present moment is itself the moment of redemption that leads to
the ultimate consummation.
From this we begin to see more of that unified cosmic sweep from the poising of the universe to
the ultimate consummation in the final resurrection.
Nevertheless there is
an ultimate consummation, not in the world but in the divine experience that accomplishes our redemption from evil.
Finally, however, it may be objected that
this ultimate consummation of all things is fine for God, but has no value for us.
«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
Far from being secondary, it was primary — the first element in Jesus» original preaching and
the ultimate consummation of the «eternal purpose.»
Not exact matches
No flash of beauty, no enchantment of goodness, no element of force, but finds in you the
ultimate refinement and
consummation of itself.
The structure of faith as apprehended within the whole company of the prophets was hardly without its contradictions, but the projection in faith of a final
consummation embracing all prophetism's high affirmations is variously and eloquently proclaimed, and such raptured extensions of prophetic faith represent the
ultimate words of prophetism.
There seems here to be a blend of the present reign of Christ before the final
consummation with an
ultimate surrender to God of the authority delegated to him as the Christ.
Taken collectively they justify what was affirmed in chapter 3 as primary notes in the meaning of the term: the
ultimate sovereignty of God; the acceptance of this sovereignty through human response and obedience to God's will; and a final, victorious
consummation of the total process.
2.9 - Il), in which evil, disease, and discord should diminish to a vanishing point in a «heaven and earth» which are essentially «new» (cf., Rev. 21: 1), or a «final ramification» in which evil grows beside good, its equally capacitated shadow side in the evolutionary advance, until the
ultimate paroxysm in which the good receives absolute vindication and the evil is self - excluded from Omega's
consummation (PM 288; cf. Matt.
And finally, the theme of
consummation, the faith in
consummation —
consummation, the necessary
ultimate extension of faith affirming the absolute sovereignty of God, declaring not so intentionally precisely how it shall be established but simply that it shall be.
Always the
ultimate goal and
consummation of God's purpose was the divine sovereignty made manifest in the Messianic age.
In an even bigger
consummation, Ruby has recently seen a stream of museum endorsement — traditionally the
ultimate arbiter of legacy.