Sentences with phrase «with eschatology»

The show was a response to my fascination with eschatology, Christian eschatology to be more specific due to my personal beliefs.

That is to say, a high doctrine of the church, to say nothing of the Christian hope for the world, is shot - through with eschatology!

The modern rediscovery that Jesus was more preoccupied with eschatology than with morality should accordingly cause us to reassess how the figure of Jesus fits in relation to the universe.

From this Hellenistic theology there developed the understanding of baptism as new birth and new creation - ideas familiar to the mystery religions, but corrected by linking the interpretation with eschatology and by introducing moral obligations.

The Kingdom of God teaching diffen from both the early Church and ancient Judaism in its use of the key concept, Kingdom of God, and in aspects of its eschatology, where, incidentally, it is in agreement with the eschatology of the parables.

Nevertheless, the foregoing summaries of the views of Sölle, Moltmann and Metz have showed that there are problems with the eschatology.

Needless to say, Christian Reconstructionism upsets many premillennialist and dispensationalist Christians with its eschatology.

The customary view among New Testament scholars and theologians is that Schweitzer set out to delineate the true picture of the historical Jesus because his predecessors and contemporaries had overlooked Jesus» preoccupation with eschatology.

Some evangelicals really do not expect such achievements, since they do not harmonize with their eschatology and their sense of our location on the timeline of history.

Not exact matches

• We've had bad experiences in modern times with the immanent eschatologies of the people who wanted to build heaven on earth or reestablish Eden — with Marxists and all the rest, who demanded, in one way or another, that the ultimate purposes of humankind be achieved.

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.

For example, I still remember in one of my «Eschatology» classes (study of the End Times), three different students were interacting with the professor about what we were learning.

As in other cases, Rowan Williams is characteristic: his theology is deeply informed by Luther, Schleiermacher, Barth, Rahner, von Balthasar, Bonhoeffer and other continental Europeans, besides theologies from other parts of the world, and his recent book On Christian Theology covers theological method, biblical hermeneutics, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, incarnation, church, sacraments, ethics and eschatology, with the Trinity as the integrator.

This is not to say that Bornkamm has moved to the position of «realized eschatology» (91); rather he sees (with Bultmann) the tension between future and present as inherent in the involvement of the imperative in the indicative, i.e. inherent in the historical understanding of the self.

Professor Bultmann agreed with Dr. Albert Schweitzer (cf.. The Quest of the Historical Jesus) that eschatology was an essential part of the teaching of Jesus, but he differed from Dr. Schweitzer in his conviction that the ethical teaching of Jesus is inseparable from his eschatology: both are based on the certainty that man is not sufficient unto himself but is under the sovereignty of God.

Christian eschatology and Incarnation now are seen to mean a total affirmation of the world, a total identification of the sacred with historical reality.

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

Eschatology and / or the Second Advent deals not only with last things, but with ultimate things.

The primordial eschatology of man is escape from self into unity with the all.

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.

The immediate awareness of the Holy, the mysterium tremendum, ecstatic participation in the Sacred: this is language he can understand and with which he can identify, as is evidenced by his first book, Oriental Mysticism and Biblical Eschatology.

In my dialogues with Third World Christians, I have sought to use the creative aspects of the black Christian eschatology in order to help us to see beyond what is present to the future that is coming.

In most of these themes — the centrality of eschatology, a renewed interest in the church as theological locus, Trinity as determinative for all that is said about God, salvation as participation — Pannenberg is in line with much recent theology.

There is an eschatology of the individual with reference to concepts of heaven, hell, final judgment, and in general of «eternal life.»

If you believe Jesus is going to settle the oppressors» hash then, what is your issue with seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness now, as a matter of divinely ordained realized eschatology?

But there has not yet been anything like a satisfactory attempt to relate this newly discovered eschatology in a systematic way with a theology of the Eucharist.

Theologians are still almost exclusively concerned with the presence of Christ in or with bread and wine; that is, with a realized eschatology in the Lord's Supper.

Eschatology is concerned about the goal of humanity and the world; apocalyptic is consumed with the actual end of the planet earth as it is presently constituted.

Niebuhr ended the Destiny volume by saying that only eschatology can rescue the political pragmatist who seeks to keep history going with only minor adjustments in the system.

One may need to look up words not used in ordinary conversation to understand what Berger means when he writes: «the problem of theodicy was solved in terms of eschatology» or «one should not confuse epistemology (i.e., knowledge) with historical gratitude.»

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There are difficulties indeed with the Biblical eschatology; but some of them arise precisely from the fact that the Biblical world view did not contemplate a distinction between two orders of time.

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

This is her answer to the flipside of Nietzchean relativism, the Will to Power, as well as to the doomed efforts of Arnold and Leavis to mend modernity with art religion or Milton and Tolstoy's conflation of state and religious eschatology.

I broke with the faith of my youth, railed against over-realized eschatology, studied theology and waxed philosophic about all the ways they were doing it wrong.

Whatever our understanding of eschatology, the New Testament is clear that Jesus will one day bring all the Church together with Him at the consummation of human history (1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 17).

To summarize, to literalize the apocalyptic passages in the New Testament, is to run counter to all we know of astronomy and the world of space; they are tied in with the then - current Jewish eschatology and Persian dualism which saw evil in command of creation; as commonly accepted, they encourage passivity about the evils of the present world; they emphasize only one side of the message of Jesus to the exclusion of essential elements; they are grounded at least in part on a misconstruction of biblical poetry and drama.

The twentieth century was destined, however, to witness a resurgence of interest in biblical eschatology, and this we shall deal with in the next chapter.

In my opinion, the only possible approach for a Christian theologian in dealing with the presence of evil is that of Thomas Aquinas, who holds, pace David Hume, that an omnipotent and benevolent God can coexist with evil in His finite creation, but only when the world is viewed both as a totality and under the aegis of eschatology.

With regard to this last item — temporality in physical cosmology — theologians who want to incorporate time into the divine life have a major intellectual hurdle to jump, namely, eschatology.

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.

This anthropology forms the basis of Niebuhr's ethics, view of history, Christology and eschatology, and is the foundation of his rejection of idealism, naturalism and romanticism as inadequate to deal with man's paradoxical nature.

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.

The «realized eschatology» of John represents only one of the attempts being made by Christians at the end of the first century to wrestle in a new setting with the heritage of the primitive Jewish hope in the imminent resurrection of the dead.

Hence the question whether all future statements are grounded on the person and history of Jesus Christ provides it with the touchstone by which to distinguish the spirit of eschatology from that of utopia.20

With this survey of variant views in the meaning of the kingdom of God as a base of procedure, let us review the types of eschatology that were outlined in the preceding chapter.

C. H. Dodd from the angle of realized eschatology and his conviction that Jesus believed the kingdom had already come in his own person interprets them as originally spoken by Jesus to refer to the crisis connected with his own death and resurrection.9 Others who believe that Jesus could not have said these things attribute them to the early church and the error of the evangelists in presenting them as his words.

These are familiar enough to be consistent with any interpretation of the kingdom, whether apocalyptic, prophetic, realized eschatology, or existential decision.

Eschatology is the branch of theology concerned with the final events in human or world history.

The eschatological tension becomes eschatology itself with Dostoevsky.