At trial, the order of evidence, witnesses and proof is usually presented
in chronological fashion so as not to confuse the jury.
In the galleries, the works move in
roughly chronological fashion, in distinct, often startling series, presenting an artist who seems to become younger and more vital with each decade, as her work becomes more spontaneous and grounded in reality.»
This is to say, then, that the classical prophet, although highly creative and proclaiming a new word, was debtor, and certainly conscious debtor, to a core tradition already long established.1 This is also to say that one must of necessity define the essentially prophetic quality in pre-Amos Israel by the standards of classical prophetism, and further that no history, and perhaps least of all biblical history, may be appropriated in
sterile chronological fashion.
The sacrament of confirmation, for example, is generally given after little if any scrutiny and in such a cookbook and
chronological fashion that it almost purposefully excludes the sincere desire of a mature and reasoned faith so central to the sacrament.