NISA has finally announced the much expected Limited Edition
of Time and Eternity, their upcoming JRPG grand adventure.
Just as he repudiates all conceptions of being that make problematic the reality of becoming, so Hartsborne also scorns all versions
of time and eternity that swallow up time in eternity.
The purpose of my book Christ and Time was precisely to show that this belongs to the substance, to the essence of early Christian faith, that it is something not to be surrendered, not to be altered in meaning; yet it has often been mistakenly thought that I intended to write an essay on the New Testament attitude toward the problem
of Time and Eternity.
Most fascinating to this reader is Polkinghorne's lengthy discussion
of time and eternity.
Such a God model is difficult to reconcile with the God of religious experience, and, in particular, with the supremely loving God of Christian belief: Incarnationist theology proposes what Kierkegaard calls The Paradox — the literal intersection
of time and eternity.
If I may be permitted some italicized revisions, Altizer's comment on Brown would look like this: Postrepressed life would be a coalescence
of time and eternity, involving a libido that has been cured of the Oedipus complex, which is to say a libido that has no guilt over having murdered God, a libido that is fallen and still in union with the sacred, i.e., a libido that is in the (realized?)
As Person explains, Kirk's stories tend to focus upon either «the reality of evil... and the nature of justice through violent retribution» or «the essential mystery
of time and eternity.»
For him, transcendence rejects the dualism of body and soul,
of time and eternity, etc., and is not a picture story of how everything is going to end up but means keeping ourselves aware that» [t] omorrow can be different.
He clearly means to accomplish this metaphysical task via a final eschaton, that future reconciling
of time and eternity in which a whole is formed that can give meaning to all moments of history.
The Greek view
of time and eternity has come down even to our day.
Problems
of time and eternity, the changing and the changeless have their mysteries before which we can, like Augustine, only confess the limit of our sight.
If this process led to the collapse of Christendom, it nevertheless is a product of Christendom, and faith must now face the consequences of a nondialectical union
of time and eternity.
It would probably overstate the point only minimally to say that SZ in its entirety is an extended meditation on Kierkegaard s discussion
of time and eternity in that treatise (CD 73 - 83).
Not exact matches
Saje offers an extremely generous return policy, which allows customers to return products any
time, for the rest
of eternity, even if it's half - used
and they lost the receipt.
Their
time horizon is
eternity and they can print more money if they must, though the consequences
of doing so are best avoided.
What better
time to speak about the loving power
of Jesus, the forgiveness through Jesus who shed his blood on the cross,
and the opportunity to spend
eternity with Jesus forever.
I believe in Him
and He died for the sakes
of All Life to be given an
eternity of many lives / deaths lives / death ad infinitum to be lived out within the eons
of Time the only thing that is truly Immortal.
Another is that a person may have spent his or her entire life, though relatively so short in
time, resisting the love
of God
and then spends
eternity regretting that.
IF heaven is so wonderful,
and our mortal life is just for a tiny instant
of time compared to all
eternity in this fabulous heaven, then I'm ready to go there right now.
Surely you don't think an omnipotent loving god, who controls everything, would require the dying to spend their last precious moments, not bonding with their loved ones
and saying their final goodbyes, but instead listening to YOU deliver a religious message they've probably heard countless
times,
and making the delivery
of that message a major condition
of their gaining life for
eternity.
Eternity is a long
time, billions
and trillions
of years plus!
christians believe that the creator
of everything spends all his
time watching them
and desires nothing more than
eternity with them
and the atheists are egotistical?
He uses knowledge that spans
time and eternity to use against us while we only have a limited amount
of years on this earth to learn about him.
The Bible is the only Holy book written by numerous authors that are all in agreement
and show how the Father's plan
of salvation was set before the creation
of the world, then tells us
of His
time here on earth in the New Testament
and also explains the tribulations
of the end
times and how false religions will abound
and that we can be ready for His return so that we can all spend
eternity with Him in Heaven.
I accept the Bible's authority; at the same
time I have wondered — as with suicide — about a precise identification
of every person
of this type with the biblical model» («The Bible
and Two Tough Topics,»
Eternity, August 1974).
The overarching interpretive rubric within which to understand the spheres
of human life —
and, for us here, in particular the family — is Augustine's statement, in Book I
of The City
of God, that the servants
of God «have no reason to regret even this life
of time, for in it they are schooled for
eternity.»
It has the advantage
of transcending the purely negative connotations
of nontemporality:
Eternity is not simply the negation
of time with reference to God, but rather the arena
of his full, majestic, unimaginably rich
and overflowing life as the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
Time and change are a flutter
of the imagination in the embrace
of two
eternities.
It is for family in a consecrated state
of loving,
and makes that loving an office
and a ministry in the Church, in
time and for
eternity.
The anointed one still walks the road that leads from Nazareth toward the borderline between
time and eternity, working among the poor, the oppressed, the mourners, the murderers
and the murdered in the only body he has right now, the one Paul calls the body
of Christ.
For them, the Incarnation was not an afterthought but is The Mystery at the heart
of God's creative purpose hidden in the Father's heart from all
eternity and revealed in Christ in the fullness
of time.
There is the conception
of religion as access
and approach to God, in which a man enters out
of the shadows into the light, out
of the passing things
of time into
eternity, out
of the world into the presence
of God.
What we know as the traditional image
of the Incarnation is precisely the means by which Christendom laid the ground for an inevitable willing
of the death
of God, for this traditional image made possible the sanctification
of «
time»
and «nature,» a sanctification finally leading to the transformation
of eternity into
time.
And now that the historical Christ has reentered eternity, ascended into heaven, he sends the holy Spirit to live within us and among us to sustain the work of redemption and healing until that time — out of time — when God will be all in a
And now that the historical Christ has reentered
eternity, ascended into heaven, he sends the holy Spirit to live within us
and among us to sustain the work of redemption and healing until that time — out of time — when God will be all in a
and among us to sustain the work
of redemption
and healing until that time — out of time — when God will be all in a
and healing until that
time — out
of time — when God will be all in all.
With hope for the future, not in any illusory «progress
of mankind onward
and upward forever,» but in the confidence that the issues for
time and eternity are in the hands
of God, remarkable staying power is generated even in the midst
of what appears to be social retrogression.
Is a form
of faith possible that will effect a dialectical union between
time and eternity, or the sacred
and the profane?
Realities
and relationships
of space,
time, infinity,
eternity,
and the promise that God
and His Christ will be «all in all» (see, for instance, 1 Corinthians 15:28, Ephesians 1:23) surpass our experience
and powers
of conception.
A sample: for the feast
of Corpus Christi, we are given some practical grounding in Christ's words about being the «living bread come down from heaven», together with thoughts about how we are united to the Father through Jesus,
and also with one another - quoting St Paul -
and finally a profound look towards
eternity as «Jesus» gift
of himself is transmitted to us beyond
time and space».
Time is but the moving imitation of eternity.15 Things in time are impermanent because they are mere shadows and copies of the unchanging id
Time is but the moving imitation
of eternity.15 Things in
time are impermanent because they are mere shadows and copies of the unchanging id
time are impermanent because they are mere shadows
and copies
of the unchanging ideas.
My reflections on the nature
of evolutionary
time show that it is not essentially contingent and that it is possible to speak of God's eternity as the Fullness of Time without implying that God becomes or is conting
time show that it is not essentially contingent
and that it is possible to speak
of God's
eternity as the Fullness
of Time without implying that God becomes or is conting
Time without implying that God becomes or is contingent.
It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors
and shouts
and triumphs
and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place
of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search
of oblivion
and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same
time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold
of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush
of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance
of eternity quietly waits.
Accordingly, his
eternity can
and must be expressed in this «naive» way, in terms
of endless
time.25
If God who created
time also said that it was good, then a formulation
of God's
eternity must show it to be the source
of time, just as the traditional formulation
of God as Perfect Good, Absolute Truth
and Supreme Being clearly show God to be the source
of all good, truth
and being.
But in Jerusalem this epiphany is consummated in Jesus» triumphantly breaking through the central zones
of death
and Hell
and opening
eternity in
time and space (Jerusalem 75:21).
And he that loves the moment fears time, he fears that the course of time will reveal his double - mindedness, and he falsifies eternity; for otherwise eternity might still more effectively reveal his double - mindedne
And he that loves the moment fears
time, he fears that the course
of time will reveal his double - mindedness,
and he falsifies eternity; for otherwise eternity might still more effectively reveal his double - mindedne
and he falsifies
eternity; for otherwise
eternity might still more effectively reveal his double - mindedness.
If what we are trying to understand here were only a peculiar intellectual difficulty in conceiving how
time and eternity can be related, the problem would be an abstract one hardly worthy
of special attention so far as the meaning
of love is concerned.
I believe that it is wrong to take this linear notion
of time and apply it to God's
eternity, even if we make qualifications.
If the traditional formulations
of God show him to be the Perfect Good, Absolute Truth
and Supreme Being, since goodness, truth
and being are positive values, then there should not be too great a difficulty in accepting a formulation
of God's
eternity as Absolute or Perfect
Time, since time is now revealed to us as positive, thanks to the discovery of evolut
Time, since
time is now revealed to us as positive, thanks to the discovery of evolut
time is now revealed to us as positive, thanks to the discovery
of evolution.
For is not to speak
of God's
eternity as the Fullness
of Time tantamount to saying that God is the fullness
of contingency
and of change,
and to denying that God is the Immutable, the Unchanging?
If God's
eternity were seen as the Fullness
of Time, I can somehow understand how God is immanent in history
and in my human temporality.