Carson Chittom rated Time and Man: 5 stars
Time and Man by Georgios I. Mantzaridis, Julian Vulliamy, Harry Boosalis
Man tends to see time as a factor in life that needs no explanation, and thinks that he knows what …
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Man tends to see time as a factor in life that needs no explanation, and thinks that he knows what …
Man tends to see time as a factor in life that needs no explanation, and thinks that he knows what …
The founding of the Church brought about the communion of God with man. The uncreated and eternal God was united ontologically with created and mortal man. Eternal life manifested itself in temporal life. Created and mortal man thus becomes through grace uncreated, eternal and everlasting, or, in other words, unoriginate, because the grace which regenerates his existence is uncreated, eternal and unoriginate. There is nothing left anymore to prevent the joining of created and uncreated, temporal and eternal, present life and life to come. The time of the realization of these events is 'last' time. The day and the hour are 'last.' Nothing else is awaited, neither Messiah, nor Paraclete, nor Antichrist. All things are present—Christ, and the Paraclete, and the Antichrist. Christ is present with the Holy Spirit in the Church, and the Antichrist is present too as an evil spirit that makes war on the Church. The presence of the Antichrist constitutes an eschatological phenomenon not so much in itself, as in relation to, or to be precise, in contrast with the eschatological presence of Christ. All those things which the incarnate manifestation of God in history have a share in bringing about (i.e., his Crucifixion and his Resurrection) create the last time, the last day, the last hour, which exists here and now.
The eschata, then, the last things, are not limited to the end of history, but exist already in the life of the Church. The last times encompass the whole period following the coming of Christ. And Christ who is "the Alpha and Omega...which is, and which was, and which is to come," is the Lord, the beginning and the end of history. Whoever has Christ, has life. The experience of this life already exists in the Church. The renewal and deification of man in Christ, which is awaited in the age to come, is already lived in this life: "Now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
Although it is revealed to the world "through a glass, darkly," the kingdom of God does not cease to be truly present.
— Time and Man by Georgios I. Mantzaridis, Julian Vulliamy, Harry Boosalis (Page 52 - 53)
'Eternity' does not constitute a completely timeless state, but was created along with the spiritual world and coexists with it without end. So that just as time is intrinsic to the world perceived by the senses, so 'eternity' too is intrinsic to the created world of the spirit. Finally, the Day of the Lord, or the eighth day is also described as 'eternal' because it represents the state of the world to come.
— Time and Man by Georgios I. Mantzaridis, Julian Vulliamy, Harry Boosalis (Page 7)
Man tends to see time as a factor in life that needs no explanation, and thinks that he knows what …
When right action is needed, a parable is a surer guide than a statute.
— On the Razor's Edge by Michael Flynn (Spiral Arm, #4)
"The secret war among the Shadows of the Name is escalating, and there are hints that it is not so …
"The secret war among the Shadows of the Name is escalating, and there are hints that it is not so …
"The secret war among the Shadows of the Name is escalating, and there are hints that it is not so …
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“What! Was none of it true what she told us?”
“Oh, all of it was true. That is the best kind of lie.”
— In the Lion's Mouth by Michael Flynn (Spiral Arm, #3)
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We must turn now to the second dimension of the Christian experience of time—to the so-called "Christian year." To speak of it, however, is even more difficult than to speak of Sunday, because for the modern Christian the relation between this "Christian year" and time has become incomprehensible and, therefore, irrelevant. On certain dates the church commemorates certain events of the past—nativity, resurrection, the descent of the Holy Spirit. These dates are an occasion for a liturgical "illustration" of certain theological affirmations, but as such they are in no way related to the real time or of consequence to it. Even within the Church itself they are mere "breaks" in the normal routine of its activities, and many business minded and action-oriented Christians secretly consider these festivals and celebrations a waste of time. And if other Christians welcome them as additional days of rest and "vacation," no one seriously thinks of them as the very heart of the Church's life and mission. There exists, in other words, a serious crisis in the very idea of a feast....
— For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann (Page 52 - 53)
Time is the only reality of life, yet it is a strangely nonexistent reality: it constantly dissolves life in a past which no longer is, and in a future which always leads to death. By itself time is nothing but a line of telegraph poles strung out into the distance and at some point along the way is death.
All generations, all philosophers have always been aware of this anxiety of time, of its paradox. All philosophy, all religion is ultimately an attempt to solve the "problem of time."
— For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann (Page 47)
There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as …