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Christianity

  • TITLE: Kingdom of God
    ...divine intervention on a cosmic scale. The details were variously conceived, but it was widely expected that God would send a supernatural, or supernaturally endowed, intermediary (the Messiah or Son of Man), whose functions would include a judgment to decide who was worthy to “inherit the Kingdom,” an expression which emphasizes that the Kingdom was thought of as a divine gift,...
  • TITLE: eschatology
    SECTION: The New Testament period
    ...present Jesus rejecting the term messiah, possibly because of its political implications—either for him or for the Evangelists—in favour of other eschatological titles (e.g., the " Son of Man"). Believing in his Resurrection after the Crucifixion, however, his early followers felt that the term messiah best expressed the role and function that they attributed to their...
  • TITLE: Christianity
    SECTION: The relation of the early church to the career and intentions of Jesus
    ...One, though there is no record of him using the word (except indirectly) in reference to himself. The titles Prophet and Rabbi also were applied to him. His own enigmatic self-designation was “Son of man,” sometimes in allusion to his suffering, sometimes to his future role as judge. This title is derived from the version of the Book of Daniel (7:13), where “one like a son of...

Jesus

  • TITLE: Christianity
    SECTION: Messianic views
    Jesus did not simply transfer to himself the promise of heavenly Son of man, as it was articulated in the apocryphal First Book of Enoch. Instead, he gave this expectation of the Son of man an entirely new interpretation. Pious Jewish circles, such as the Enoch community and other pietist groups, expected in the coming Son of man a figure of light from on high, a heavenly conquering hero, with...
  • TITLE: Jesus Christ
    SECTION: The kingdom of God
    Jesus himself apparently anticipated the arrival of a heavenly figure whom he called “the Son of Man,” who would come on clouds of glory and gather the elect. The Hebrew Bible laid the foundation for this teaching in two ways. First, several prophets expected “the day of the Lord,” when the wicked would be punished or destroyed and the good would be spared, though the...

messiah

  • TITLE: messiah
    ...the “son of David” messianism, with its political implications, was overshadowed by apocalyptic notions of a more mystical character. Thus some believed that a heavenly being called the “ Son of Man” (the term is derived from the Book of Daniel) would descend to save his people. The messianic ferment of this period, attested by contemporary Jewish-Hellenistic literature,...

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