Covenant, Promise, and the Gift of Time

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities e...

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Published in:	Religious Inquiries
Main Author:	George Pattison
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Religions and Denominations Press 2018-06-01
Subjects:	time covenant promise eschatology possibility immortality the other language responsibility
Online Access:	https://ri.urd.ac.ir/article_63731_bb8d53ca999971c48b6c893c4f288ab2.pdf