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Donald MacKinnon on temporal existence

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Donald MacKinnon on Christ’s assumption of temporal existence What it was for [Jesus] to be human was to be subject to the sort of fragmentation of effort, curtailment of design, interruption of purpose, distraction of resolve that belongs to temporal existence. To leave one place for another is to leave work undone; to give attention to […]

Variations on a theme in theological anthropology

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Variations on a theme in theological anthropology A. Ernest Becker Men aren’t built to be gods, to take in the whole world; they are built like other creatures, to take in the piece of ground in front of their noses. from The Denial of Death, (Free Press, 1997), 178. B. Rowan Williams Theology must rediscover itself […]

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