The Intensification of Time: Michael Wyschogrod and the Task of Christian Theology
In conversation with Karl Barth, Michael Wyschogrod observes that with God's promises, unlike humans', "if we have [God's] promise, we have its fulfillment". The essay considers Wyschogrod's implicit intensification of time, which displaces common linear views of time....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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Modern theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 22, Issue: 4, Pages: 693-699 |
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| Summary: | In conversation with Karl Barth, Michael Wyschogrod observes that with God's promises, unlike humans', "if we have [God's] promise, we have its fulfillment". The essay considers Wyschogrod's implicit intensification of time, which displaces common linear views of time. Wyschogrod charges that Christian understandings of fulfillment imply a completed line of history which is all too luminous. Edwyn Hoskyns's study of John's Gospel suggests an alternative; namely, a Christian intensification of time which finds in Jesus both life and judgment, love and condemnation. Such realized apocalyptic, as it were, confronts readers with a density or relative darkness more consonant with Hebrew scriptural revelation. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-0025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2006.00342.x |
