Messianic expectation

Obama came to power as an agent of change amid almost messianic expectations.

But my question is about whether or not this is to be seen as a messianic expectation.

His son, in turn, took on messianic expectations.

Messianic expectations have been replaced by the utopia of a man-made paradise.

How can any human withstand the political cross winds and messianic expectations of the chancellorship?

A President Romney would be utterly unburdened by messianic expectations.

They hold that what Jesus said and did, and told his disciples to do likewise, are of greater significance than any messianic expectations.

The contrast on Inauguration Day 2009, between his restrained speech and the crowd's near messianic expectations was striking.

She speaks concerning the Messianic expectation.

There had long been religious fervour and a kind of messianic expectation of Abbasid ascendency.

Art, literature, poetry were made to carry the messianic expectation that some Bismarck-like figure would gather the vast Arab world into one large state.

Studies on the Messianic Expectations in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

During this period messianic expectations were very intense among the Jews of Yemen (and among many Arabs as well).

Unwilling to give up their messianic expectations, a minority of Zvi's Jewish followers converted to Islam along with him.

His Messianic expectation, with the stress upon the constancy with which its future fulfillment is to be looked for, had also an anti-Christian bearing.

This quotation from the Book of Haggai illustrates the messianic expectations that are often associated with Zerubbabel.

He quoted from it as a proof from prophecy based on Isaiah 11.2 to explain how Jesus was the fulfillment of messianic expectations.

The Book of Jubilees, if written about 120 B.C., confirms the Messianic expectations of that time.

Historian Eric Van Young believes that such ideas gave the movement supernatural and religious legitimacy that went as far as messianic expectation.

Though Messianic expectations in general centered on the King Messiah, the Essenes expected both a kingly and a priestly figure in their eschatology.

Hillar's major theological work is demonstrating how the doctrine of the Trinity was developed from various sources through the evolution of the Jewish messianic expectations which underwent changes during centuries.

What is clear from the evidence is that "Son of man" did not function in pre-Christian messianic expectations as a title for a deliverer expected to come in the last times.

That Jewish Messianic expectation was extremely high in those times, matched to the despair caused by the Roman occupation of the land, and by their subjugation of the Jews.

In the 1980's many Lubavitchers, seeing that the rebbe had no son or designated successor, took those messianic expectations a step further and concluded that the rebbe himself was the Messiah.

While it is unclear how much of Nabil's interpretation is consistent with Shaykh Ahmad's true feelings, the underlying motivations for reform, and ultimately for messianic expectation, become somewhat clearer.