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THE INTENSIFICATION OF TIME: MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD AND THE TASK OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
Author(s) -
LOWE WALTER
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2006.00342.x
Subject(s) - revelation , philosophy , conversation , theology , gospel , literature , art , linguistics
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.