'Once For All': the tense of the atonement
Does a proper understanding of the Atonement - the restoration of mankinds relationship with God as a result of Christs sacrifice - require a particular conception of time? It has been suggested that it does, and that the relevant conception is a tensed or dynamic one, in which distinctions be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2016]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 8, Issue: 4, Pages: 179-194 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Atonement teaching
/ Space-time
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBA Dogmatics NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | Does a proper understanding of the Atonement - the restoration of mankinds relationship with God as a result of Christs sacrifice - require a particular conception of time? It has been suggested that it does, and that the relevant conception is a tensed or dynamic one, in which distinctions between past, present and future reflect the objective passage of time. This paper examines two arguments that might be given for that contention, and finds that both may be answered by appeal to the asymmetry of causation. The Atonement leaves us free to think of all times as equally real, as traditionally they are for God. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v8i4.1762 |