The Fullness of Time (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532689376)

While human existence in time is determined by the time of Jesus Christ, by the logic of the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension, the predominant accounts of time in the modern West have proceeded from a very different basis. The implications of these approaches are not just a matter of epistemology, or of abstract doctrinal and philosophical claims. Instead, they have had, and continue to have, concrete ramifications for human life together. They have overwhelmingly been death-dealing rather than life-giving, marked by a series of temporal moral errors that this book hopes to address. As a counterexample, this book reads Soren Kierkegaard alongside Karl Barth to highlight the ways that both figures rejected a Hegelian approach to time that was, and is, not coincidentally intertwined with a racialized account of history and the co-opting of Christianity by the modern Western state.

Author: Kara N. Slade
ISBN-10: 1532689373
ISBN-13: 9781532689376
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2021
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d