Sentences with phrase «with eschatological»

Therefore, Communion, with its eschatological announcement and pre-enactment, is a reminder to the church that we have a particular vantage point as we look at the entire context of our preaching and our life.

7.13 in connection with eschatological expectation does not end with the apocalyptic literature, but continues into the talmudic and midrashic tradition, where it is also used in connection with the Messiah.

Weigel also confuses ecclesiological categories (what makes the Church) with eschatological categories (who is saved), misusing a text from St. Augustine to imply that we can now, with some probability, of living persons know who is «wheat» and who is «weed.»

The closed world view of modern science, both in physics and in psychology, leaves no room for a unique historical event with an eschatological — i.e. final and absolute — significance.

Christ is «fully baby,» and we bear babies who will be «fully baby» with eschatological hope.

(Moltmann says: «The existence of the Jews again and again forces Christians to the knowledge that they are not yet at the goal, that their church is itself not the goal, but that with eschatological provisionality and brotherly openness they remain on the way.

What is original in process thought is the equation of the metaphysical with the eschatological future.

It was with this eschatological emphasis within a Barthian matrix of thought that Moltmann encountered the work of Ernst Bloch.

As far as it goes her position is the same as that of process theology, but it does not seem to wrestle with the eschatological question of ultimate meaning.

It is therefore with an eschatological hope that we act, remaining confident of the meaningfulness of our social agenda Writes Smedes:

This present includes the simple historical future, so that the term «present» is contrasted with the eschatological future.

Theology in this case does not deal with supratemporal or timeless truths but with the eschatological (a higher temporal dimension of evolutionary time or process than the purely historical) and hence temporal truths.

But this counsel is linked with an eschatological promise that their descendants shall «people the desolate cities.

Not exact matches

Professor Jenson asks, «How, in a world that entertains no promises» [a postmodern world], «is the Church to speak her eschatological hope with any public plausibility?»

He also suggests that the eschatological prospect entertained by Jesus is a later addition, and notes that it has nothing to do with the gift of bread and wine.

He articulates an eschatological realism in line with the broad Christian tradition.

The eschatological vision of the Revelation 21 is the very overcoming of the Leviathan and God's dwelling with the people of God in justice and peace and in harmony in the universe.

But, theologically, the world which modern man knows as «chaos» or «nothingness» is homologous with the world that eschatological faith knows as «old aeon» or «old creation» — both worlds are stripped of every fragment of positive meaning and value.

Thus Fuchs has carried through with regard to Jesus» action the same thesis which Käsemann presented with regard to his message: in the message and action of Jesus is implicit an eschatological understanding of his person, which becomes explicit in the kerygma of the primitive Church.

Consequently he concerns himself with the historical question sufficiently seriously to trace, in one instance, the term «Son of Man» in the Gospels, the continuity between Jesus» message and the Church's witness: although Jesus may never have called himself Son of Man, he did say that acquittal by the Son of Man in the eschatological judgement was dependent upon one's present relation to himself (Mark 8.38 par.).

This means: Jesus forwent the publication of his own private eschatological experiences; rather he determined only to draw the consequences from them and to begin here on earth with the work of God visible only in heaven!

The proximity of sober political theology with intoxicated eschatological anticipation is disorienting.

Nor has anything been more characteristic of recent research than the gradual detection of early kerygmatic fragments in the New Testament, in which the original eschatological meaning of the christological titles used in the kerygma is still apparent, and is clearly distinct from their later metaphysical use: Jesus is «exalted» to the rank of cosmocrator with the «name that is above every name,... Lord Jesus Christ», in order to subjugate the universe (Phil.

For this view Fuchs appeals to the parables, which were often spoken in the setting of the eschatological meals: «Jesus supplied his disciples with the interpretation of his parabolic language by an act of goodness.»

4.8 - 13, which describes Christian existence first in eschatological terms such as Jesus used, and then in Paul's more typical language of union with Christ.

Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can not decide on the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of theological language.

«Narrative and practical Christianity can, in its encounter with... other religions, keep hold of its eschatological and universal history of meaning without at the same time having to accept the histories of the other religions in a totality of meaning.»

Insofar as an eschatological epiphany of Christ can occur only in conjunction with a realization in total experience of the kenotic process of self - negation, we should expect that epiphany to occur in the heart of darkness, for only the universal triumph of the Antichrist can provide an arena for the total manifestation of Christ.

(b) Eschatological movement: God's transcendence radically breaks with all «repetition.

An eschatological faith knows that grace is all, that the Word appears in a new world, a new totality drawing all history into union with the Word.

I suspect that scripture's references to any supposed eschatological political powers are deliberately obscure because they are of little benefit to our walk with Jesus.

This to a certain degree non-official activity of the Church in the human beings of the Church under grace is an historical manifestation of the eschatological unconquerable grace which God has linked inseparably with the historical phenomenon of the Church as the primal sacrament of grace.

At no point in this process does the incarnate Word or Spirit assume a final and definitive form, just as God himself can never be wholly or simply identified with any given revelatory event or epiphany, if only because the divine process undergoes a continual metamorphosis, ever moving more deeply and more fully toward an eschatological consummation.

It can be seen that only the parables in and 2 may be said to be concerned with proclaiming the Kingdom in the same sense that the eschatological similes proclaim it.

I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that one of the biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more than pure imagination.

At this point the eschatological question becomes paramount, and I proceed with the theological conviction that the Christian names of Christ and the Kingdom of God are integrally and necessarily related to each other.

It challenges men to join him in the joyous celebration of the new relationship with God and one another which the realization that the time of the eschatological forgiveness of sins is now makes possible.

It is with this development that we are particularly concerned, since Jesus certainly proclaimed the eschatological Kingdom of God.

Naturally enough, with the rise of apocalyptic, the hope for God's ultimate forgiveness becomes the hope for God's eschatological forgiveness, and with the rise of Messianism, it becomes the hope for messianic forgiveness: In Pesikta 149a, the Messiah comes «with grace and pardon (slyhh) on his lips.»

Theologians have used the same model to erect a cosmic and eschatological pyramid in which women, along with children, are still at the lowest level.

In the former passage, a surrogate of the love - commandment functions as the eschatological criterion of salvation; at 11:25 - 30 the human insensitivity of the pharisaic attitude is implicitly contrasted with the «easy yoke.»

The second volume deals with the doctrines of creation, the Church, and eschatological «fulfillment.»

The Christian message of Salvation in Christ in its total eschatological framework (with which Col. 3 begins) should be kept in intimate relation to the historical mission of promoting koinonia in both the churchly sacramental and pluralistically secular dimensions of community life in the modern world.

Ethical demand and eschatological gift therefore accord with one another — but not in the sense that the latter assumes the former as a prerequisite or even less that, conversely, the «gift» precedes the «demand.»

The eschatological character of the symbol indicates that the future is indeed open and that we are continually presented with possibilities for decision and actualization.

He boldly integrates this insight with his trinitarian theology by conceiving of the biblical narrative as «the final truth of God's own reality» in the mutual relations of God the Father, His incarnate Son, and the eschatological accomplishment of their communion by the Spirit.

Jesus shatters this theme of divine withdrawal with both a message and a lifestyle that proclaims God's intimate nearness6 and participates in a «prolepsis» 7 of what is yet to come in fullness: The outcast is brought back into the fold, the physically impaired are made whole, the eschatological banquet of inclusivity is experienced here and now.8 And yet, these are only foretastes.

Secondly, because the notion of proposition is tense with contrast between past and future, it can carry a lot of eschatological freight.

One way to answer this is to notice that the eschatological portraits in the Scripture never show us humans floating in heaven with wings or naked in an untouched garden.

At the centre of it all lies this alien, eschatological Gospel, completely out of touch, as it seems, with our ways of thought.