Tag: utopia
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A Personal Victory
In the course of doing something routine this morning, wrote down the date, and noticed: it’s the anniversary of my quit date from smoking. That was 14 years ago.
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The Flavor of the Eschaton
Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect. (Hebrews 11:39-40) “No light falls on men and things without reflecting transcendence.” (Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics, 404) Source: Poynter.org
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Good Old Days, Ancient Version
According to Steven Schweitzer, in Reading Utopia in Chronicles, the Chronicler uses prophecy and speeches for two purposes. On one hand, prophecy serves to create a utopian past for Israel that functions as a critique of the Chronicler’s present and as a vision for future possibility. On the other, the prophetic source confers authority. “The…
Matters of Interpretation 