Kairos and Carnival: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rhetorical and Ethical Christian Vision

The term kairos has been used to mean, alternatively, right timing or proportion in Ancient Greek rhetoric, by Jesus to refer to the Christian eschaton and by Paul Tillich and modern liberation theologians to refer to the breakthrough of the divine into human history. Kairos, unlike chronos, is an i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ian Bekker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/3/79