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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: George Pattison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Religions and Denominations Press 2018-06-01
Series:Religious Inquiries
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Online Access:https://ri.urd.ac.ir/article_63731_bb8d53ca999971c48b6c893c4f288ab2.pdf