The fifth thesis says that we exist in the as yet
unredeemed world.
In the light of his future he comes into the present through his gospel, and opens men and women through faith for the redemption of
this unredeemed world.
The concept of the redeemed soul in the midst of
an unredeemed world is alien to the Jew, profoundly alien, inaccessible from the primal ground of his existence.
The Christian Yes to Jesus» messiahship, which is based on believed and experienced reconciliation, will therefore accept the Jewish No, which is based on the experienced and suffered unredeemedness of the world; and the Yes will insofar adopt the No as to talk about the total and universal redemption of the world only in the dimensions of a future hope and a present contradiction of
this unredeemed world.
So according to Ben - Chorin there is after all one Jewish caesura in the history of
this unredeemed world: the revelation of the Torah on Sinai, given to the people of Israel through Moses.
This is the question of Christian existence: can one already be a Christian in
this unredeemed world, and therefore exist as a messianic person?
The phenomenon of Holocaust denial testifies not to its actual plausibility but to the persistence, in our still
unredeemed world, of irrationality, hysteria, and, in this case, an unspeakably malignant intention.
That is the difference that prevents us from being one community in
this unredeemed world, but we could not be specifically different if we did not share generic commonality.
This change was natural enough; for when it became necessary to readjust the Christian outlook to the indefinite postponement of the second advent and judgment, the Church had to organize itself as a permanent society living the life of the redeemed people of God in
an unredeemed world.
The Christian sees the Jew as the incomprehensibly obdurate man who declines to see what has happened, and the Jew sees the Christian as the incomprehensibly daring man who affirms redemption in
an unredeemed world.
It raises energetically the claim for the establishment of a Christian order of life, «but de facto the redeemed Christian soul stands over against
an unredeemed world of men in lofty impotence.»
«The unredeemed soul refuses to give up the evidence of
the unredeemed world from which it suffers, to exchange it for the soul's own salvation.»
Not exact matches
Not only Kafka, the
unredeemed Jew, but even the redeemed Christian soul becomes aware in our day of the eclipse of the light of God, «of the still
unredeemed concreteness of the human
world in all its horror.»
How can one speak of a breakthrough of the messianic era in light of the fact that the
world is so obviously
unredeemed?
In that sense the
world remains
unredeemed.
Rather, in the chaotic
world of White Crucifixion all are
unredeemed, caught in a vortex of destruction binding crucified victim and modern martyr.
Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a
world where
unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.
After a quiet summer off from classroom duties, at a safe distance from multinational corporations, secularized businessmen, and the as - yet -
unredeemed American economic system, maybe — if this survey is accurate — the seminary professors will come back a little closer to This
World and this world than they've been in the
World and this
world than they've been in the
world than they've been in the past.
Dirty Weekend Directed and written by Neil LaBute (USA)--
World Premiere, Narrative Neil LaBute returns to Tribeca with this sharp - edged comedy treat about the ripple effects of desire, whether it's followed or left
unredeemed.
In fact, there are now more
unredeemed frequent flyer miles than currency in circulation — around the
world!
If your card account is closed, you will lose any
unredeemed points (including Bonus Points) in your
World of Hyatt account if you fail to have qualifying activity in the
World of Hyatt program at least once every 24 months.
Also, if your
World of Hyatt account is terminated, any
unredeemed points in your
World of Hyatt account will be lost.
Instead, I choose to live in the real
world, where points lose value the longer they go
unredeemed.