{"product_id":"essays-hegelian-and-ecumenical-what-has-been-at-stake-von-stephen-theron","title":"Essays Hegelian and Ecumenical: What has been at stake","description":"\u003cp\u003eScientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the 19th Century, grade: keine, , language: English, abstract: When we question the reality of time we do so in favour of something richer, measuring more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efully up to experience, not something poorer. Timelessness, therefore, signifies indeed an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabsence of time, but in favour of something else which will be more and not less dynamic. We\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecould not, for example, accept a view which represented us vibrant human beings as like\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimmobile statues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne reason for our confidence in saying this is that, contrary to popular assumption, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edoctrine of God was never one of immobility, even where it was one of immutability. In\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern and Christian thought God is necessarily a Trinity, a universe of relations, that is to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esay. Here the Father speaks the Word, the Word proceeds, their mutual love pours forth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(spirates) perpetually. Such uttering, equated with begetting or generation, is what the Father\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis. He was not, is not, anything prior to this generating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore any event that we experience, be it our own perception of something, or any event\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat all, is so to say undercut and supported by, as having at its heart, this eternal utterance or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egeneration of the Word in which all things are contained. The very newness of things reflects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeternal novelty and freshness, and thus time is eternal reality's image and cipher, not its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enegation merely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf therefore anyone would replace this religious view with, as in absolute idealism, a universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof immortal spirits, ourselves, in perpetual mutual relation, then should he or she not say, as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epreserving the insight of theology, that we in some way generate one another perpetually? We\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edo not just find ourselves passively there. How could we? But nor is the individual alone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponsible for all else. Rather, we must be as necessary to the whole community as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommunity is necessary to us. It could not exist without me, or you, and nor could I without\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eit. We are \"begotten\" from one another, yet each has his own energy which is yet one with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat of the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640164035\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640164035","offer_id":39424277905501,"sku":"9783640164035","price":52.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/a33b3fed-f427-4e61-8115-fc31ce0b86c2.jpg?v=1777613403","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/essays-hegelian-and-ecumenical-what-has-been-at-stake-von-stephen-theron","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}