Another of the recent interview segments with Walter Brueggemann. It's a different view of the same topics that Hans Kung dealt with in some of the things I excerpted during this Easter Season, which ends Sunday. I especially like what he said, "God loves us to eternity". I have to admit that I misunderstood Brueggemann's thinking about the idea of life after death which doesn't seem to be far from Kung's (and Rahner's, I believe) idea of us dying into God's eternity, not a naive view of heaven as commonly conceived of as a continuation of our present life with benefits. And that the idea of that is not an excuse for ignoring justice in this life but a reason for all the more striving for it. The interviewer talks about "getting in on eternal love now." Which is certainly the same thing as any mature concept of justice, it's what the Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition has been about since the time The Law was written.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Walter Brueggemann - Time
Another of the recent interview segments with Walter Brueggemann. It's a different view of the same topics that Hans Kung dealt with in some of the things I excerpted during this Easter Season, which ends Sunday. I especially like what he said, "God loves us to eternity". I have to admit that I misunderstood Brueggemann's thinking about the idea of life after death which doesn't seem to be far from Kung's (and Rahner's, I believe) idea of us dying into God's eternity, not a naive view of heaven as commonly conceived of as a continuation of our present life with benefits. And that the idea of that is not an excuse for ignoring justice in this life but a reason for all the more striving for it. The interviewer talks about "getting in on eternal love now." Which is certainly the same thing as any mature concept of justice, it's what the Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition has been about since the time The Law was written.
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