The Spirit in Matthew

Pneuma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 391-399
Author(s):  
Blaine Charette
Keyword(s):  
Unique Feature ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Father And Son

Abstract It is clear that the Spirit of God plays a very important role in Matthew’s account. It is also important to note that Matthew refers to the Spirit in ways that are distinctive. For example, among the evangelists only Matthew speaks of the Spirit of God, and Matthew is unique in the NT in referring to the Spirit of the Father. This manner of nuancing the Spirit is analogous to the varied ways in which Matthew describes the kingdom, a concept qualified by such terms as “heaven,” “God,” “Father,” and “Son of Man.” This similarity is appropriate since a further unique feature of the Gospel is that Matthew alone decisively associates the Spirit of God with the presence of the kingdom of God. This discussion will focus first on Jesus’s experience of the Spirit and then on the work of the Spirit in the redemptive or kingdom activity of Jesus.

Book Review: Son of Man and Kingdom of God

1944 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-240
Author(s):  
George C. Ring
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Son Of Man

The Kingdom of God and the Son of Man

1938 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 356
Author(s):  
Ernest Cadman Colwell ◽  
Rudolph Otto ◽  
F. V. Filson ◽  
B. L. Woolf
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Son Of Man

Defeating Satan and Liberating Israel: Jesus and Daniel's Visions

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-170
Author(s):  
Craig Evans
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Recent Scholarship

AbstractIn recent scholarship there is greater acceptance of the authenticity of the 'son of man' sayings in the dominical tradition, though in some circles linkage with Dan. 7.13-14 is still denied. The present paper affirms this linkage, arguing that fundamental elements of Jesus' proclamation of the kingdom of God, especially with regard to the perceived struggle with the kingdom of Satan, cannot be properly understood apart from appreciation of the contribution of Daniel 7.

“Citizens of the Kingdom”: Toward a Social History of Radical Christianity in Latin America

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social History ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Pillar ◽  
Liberation Theologian

In 1981 liberation theologian José Porfirio Miranda argued that the parable of the weeds in Matthew was a clear guide for a radical politics in the modern world. According to the Mexican mathematician and union adviser, Jesus' explanation that “the farmer sowing seeds is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the citizens of the Kingdom” was an injunction to achieve justice and freedom in the present. This earthly incarnation of the Kingdom of God was a central pillar of resistance to capitalism among middle-and lower-class groups in Latin America in the last third of the twentieth century, from human rights activism in the Southern Cone to Central America's revolutionary insurrections.

scholarly journals Grundtvig teologiske udvikling til omkring affattelsen af »De levendes land«

1995 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-274
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Albinus Glenthøj
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Union With Christ ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Love Of God ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Father And Son

The Development of Grundtvig ’s Theology until about the Time of the Composition of .The Land of the Living. About the Eschatological Tension in the Understanding of the Kingdom of GodBy Elisabeth Albinus GlenthøjIn order to characterize briefly Grundtvig’s ideas about the Kingdom of God, the following statements are crucial: The Kingdom of God will break through visibly at the Second Coming of Christ. Until then the Kingdom is present to Faith and Hope through the Holy Spirit.The tension between the eschatological, visible Kingdom of God and the presence of the Kingdom now is a common theme in Grundtvig’s hymns. This study seeks to trace the development of Grundtvig’s theology towards his fully developed view of the Kingdom of God. The subject of the study is the great hymn, .The Land of the Living., from 1824, which contains beginnings of Grundtvig’s more elaborated view. The basic texts of the study are sermons by Grundtvig from 1821 to 1824, the period in which the eschatological tension emerges.Sections I to II.A. bring a chronological outline of the development of Grundtvig’s theology during the period until and including the year 1824. Section II.B. examines »The Land of the Living«  in the light of this outline. Throughout the study the emphasis is on the emergence of the eschatological tension.From his parents Grundtvig inherits a belief in a Kingdom of God hereafter, but as Grundtvig experiences the presence of the Lord through the Holy Spirit - in his own life and in the Church - the theology develops towards an understanding of the Kingdom of God as already present to Faith and Hope through the Holy Spirit. The future visible Kingdom illuminates the life of the Church already. Thus the eschatological tension emerges.The continuity between the future and the present Kingdom of God is found in the union with Christ through the Holy Spirit. This union is granted in Baptism and is nourished first and foremost through the Eucharist, and, next, through prayer and words of praise. Grundtvig’s experience of Pentecost underlies »The Land of the Living«: The Holy Spirit builds up the heart of man to become a temple for the Father and Son (stanza 12). Stanzas 7 to 11 elaborate the content of this unity with the Trinity. From here originates the life of the Church in the love of God and of one’s neighbour, a life which, through the Holy Spirit, takes man closer to the likeness to Christ; the goal is reached in Eternity. Wherever the love of God prevails, the Kingdom of God is present (stanza 13); that is where men are »co-operating witnesses to the divine struggle of the Spirit against the flesh«, against everything »which seeks to ... wipe out His image, destroy His temple within us« (Eighth Sunday after Trinity, 1824).

scholarly journals New Testament Eschatology and New Testament Ethics

1909 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Francis Greenwood Peabody
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Son Of God ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Kingdom Of Heaven ◽  
The World ◽  
Normal Human ◽  
Strange Phenomenon

The most important contribution of this generation to Biblical interpretation has been made, beyond question, through the appreciation and analysis of New Testament eschatology. Round the teaching of the Gospels, like an atmosphere which even though unconscious of it they breathe, lies, according to this view, a circle of apocalyptic expectation, with its literature, its vocabulary, and its inextinguishable hopes. Though Rabbinical orthodoxy might regard this literature as heretical, it may well have had a peculiar fascination for contemplative or poetic minds. When, therefore, after solitary reflection on his mission, Jesus came into Galilee ‘preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,’ it might be anticipated that he, like John the Baptist, would apply to that kingdom the language of apocalyptic hope, and would announce its approach as heralded by a catastrophic end of the world-age. This key of interpretation, once in the hands of German learning, has been applied with extraordinary ingenuity to many obscurities and perplexities of the Gospels, and has unlocked some of them with dramatic success. The strange phenomenon, for example, of reserve and privacy in the teaching of Jesus, becomes, in this view, an evidence of his esoteric consciousness of Messiahship, which none but a chosen few were permitted to know. ‘He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.’ The cardinal phrases of the teaching, ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ ‘Son of God,’ and ‘Son of Man,’ all point, it is urged, not to a normal, human or social regeneration, but to a supernatural, revolutionary, and catastrophic change.

scholarly journals The Day of the Son of Man and its Anticipation (Luke 17:26-30)

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Iulian Faraoanu
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Day Of The Lord

The aim of this paper is to focus on the biblical images in the text Luke 17:26-30. The verses Luke 17:26-30 describe the coming of the day of the Lord and the manner of waiting such a day. The evangelist offers an example of lack of preparation for the return of Christ, the Son of Man. The members of the lukan communities have a lot of the activities without connection to the spiritual life. First, Luke intends to condemn an immanent vision on life. Secondly, comes the lack of concern for the kingdom of God. The comparison with the days of Noah and Lot has exhortative function, inviting the members of Luke’s community to focus their look and attention on the divine realities. In the conclusion, the delay of the Parousia should not lead to a life limited to the earthly activities, thus forgetting about God. The anticipation of Christ return must be alive, while being aware that the Lord may arrive at any moment, and His coming should find people prepared for it.

Truth Claims for Religious Images

1966 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Gualtieri
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Religious Images ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Area Of Study

A rough circumscription of our area of study will be achieved when I say that by images I mean the kind of thing about which Ian Crombie and Austin Farrer have written in Faith and Logic and Farrer also in The Glass of Vision. In the latter work Farrer cites as examples of religious images the Kingdom of God, the Son of Man, the Israel of God and the ‘infinitely complex and fertile image of sacrifice and communion, of expiation and covenant’. Farrer's images are essentially verbal pictures whose function is to interpret and elucidate revelatory events. He writes:The great images interpreted the events of Christ's ministry, death and resurrection, and the events interpreted the images; the interplay of the two is revelation. Certainly the events without the images would be no revelation at all, and the images without the events would remain shadows on the clouds. The events by themselves are not revelation, for they do not by themselves reveal the divine work which is accomplished in them: the martyrdom of a virtuous Rabbi and his miraculous return are not of themselves the redemption of the world.

Son of Man and Kingdom of God: A Critical Study

1944 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Sherman E. Johnson ◽  
Henry Burton Sharman
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Son Of Man
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