(1) In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization.(2) Talk of the moshiach increased and the fact that the Rebbe cold not talk did nothing to detract Lubavitchers from the messianic belief.(3) The messianic idea animated Jewish resistance to Roman occupation and sustained the Jews for centuries in the diaspora.(4) If so, also this theme in Jesus' messianic self-understanding has had an impact on the public life of society and the state, not least during the past thirty years in Latin America.(5) In handling the crisis, then, a justifiable prudential strategy was, by March, overtaken and overwhelmed by this paradigm, underpinned by a commitment that became increasingly messianic .(6) While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest.(7) Even though healing was not the basis for claims about his messianic role or divine identity, the gospels' interpretation of his identity and power include frequent references to that activity.(8) But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope.(9) The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope.(10) She was a Brownie Scout troop leader of almost messianic zeal.(11) The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal.(12) And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission.(13) Not only did the Israelites claim that the world we know is not the world that God intended, but they also expressed their hope in a messianic age in which God's original intention would be realized.(14) Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world.(15) The belief in the coming of the messianic era belongs to that latter kind of hope.(16) This might be true, but not in countries led by terrorists or fanatics possessed by messianic visions or that have no political or strategic discipline.
