Our Faith of Tomorrow
“If there is anything from which Christian believers should not suffer, it is really this ‘future shock,’ for they live in a history directed and read from the perspective of its end and wait ‘for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.’ The acceleration of history is our nat...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
1975
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Theology today
Year: 1975, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 292-294 |
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Summary: | “If there is anything from which Christian believers should not suffer, it is really this ‘future shock,’ for they live in a history directed and read from the perspective of its end and wait ‘for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.’ The acceleration of history is our natural milieu, for our God is not a God of the dead but of the living, not a God of nature but of history.” |
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ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057367503100403 |