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- Title
THE INTENSIFICATION OF TIME: MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD AND THE TASK OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY.
- Authors
Lowe, Walter
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
JUDAISM (Christian theology); WYSCHOGROD, Michael, 1928-2015; CHRISTIANITY &; other religions; THEOLOGY; JUDEO-Christian tradition; GOD in Judaism
- Publication
Modern Theology, 2006, Vol 22, Issue 4, p693
- ISSN
0266-7177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0025.2006.00342.x