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Review: Paul and Time
Christ and Time, L Ann Jervis. Baker Academic (iSBN: 9781540960788), 2023. Summary: A proposal that believers live, not at the intersection and the age to come, but that we have been delivered from the present evil age to live in Christ, including living in his time. We understand time in the light of Christ’s saving work. We understand that Christ’s coming inaugurated “the age to come” That…
What is it to chatter? It is the annulment of the passionate disjunction between being silent and speaking. Only the person who can remain essentially silent can speak essentially, can act essentially. Silence is inwardness. Chattering gets ahead of essential speaking, and giving utterance to reflection has a weakening effect on action by getting ahead of it. But the person who can speak essentially because he is able to keep silent will not have a profusion of things to speak about but one thing only, and he will find time to speak and to keep silent. Talkativeness gains in extensity: it chatters about anything and everything and continues incessantly. When individuals are not turned inward in quiet contentment, in inner satisfaction, in religious sensitiveness, but in a relation of reflection are oriented to externalities and to each other, when no important event ties the loose threads together in the unanimity of a crucial change--then chattering begins. The important event gives the passionate age (for the two go together) something to speak about; everybody wants to speak about the same thing. It is all about the one and the same. But in quite a different sense chattering has a great deal to chatter about. And then when the important event was over, when silence returned, there was still something to recollect, something to think about in silence, while a new generation speaks of entirely different matters. But chattering dreads the moment of silence, which would reveal the emptiness.
Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: A Literary Review
The existential expression of nullifying the principle of contradiction is to be in contradiction to oneself. The creative omnipotence implicit in the passion of absolute disjunction that leads the individual resolutely to make up his mind is transformed into extensity of prudence and reflection--that is, by knowing and being everything possible to be in contradiction to oneself, that is, to be nothing at all. The principle of contradiction strengthens the individual in faithfulness to himself, so that, just like that constant number three Socrates speaks of so beautifully, which would rather suffer anything and everything than become a number four or even a very large round number, he would rather be something small, if still faithful to himself, than all sorts of things in contradiction to himself.
Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: A Literary Review
But through the leap out into the depths one learns to help himself, learns to love all others as much as himself even though he is accused of arrogance and pride--for not accepting help--or selfishness--for being unwilling to deceive others by helping them, that is, by helping them miss what is highest of all.
Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: A Literary Review
But through the leap out into the depths one learns to help himself, learns to love all others as much as himself even though he is accused of arrogance and pride - for not accepting help - or of selfishness - for being unwilling to deceive others by helping them, that is, by helping them miss what is highest of all.
Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages
The present age with its flashes of enthusiasm alternating with apathetic indolence, which at most likes to joke, comes very close to being comical; but anyone who understands the comic readily sees that the comic does not consist at all in what the present age imagines it does and that satire in our day, if it is to be at all beneficial and not cause irreparable harm, must have the resource of a consistent and well-grounded ethical view, a sacrificial unselfishness, and a highborn nobility that renounce the moment; otherwise the medicine becomes infinitely and incomparably worse than the illness.
Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages
The hopelessness of antiquity was that the great were what the others could not be, the exciting thing [in the present age] will be that he who wins himself religiously will be only what everyone can be.
Soren Kierkegaard Two Ages
Kierkegaard - Two Ages - "The Present Age"
But one thing is sure, reflection, like knowledge, increases sorrow, and beyond a doubt there is no task and effort more difficult for the individual as well as for the whole generation than to extricate oneself from the temptations of reflection, simply because they are so dialectical, because one single clever fabrication is able to give the matter a sudden new turn, because reflection is able at any moment to reinterpret and allow one to escape somewhere, because even in the final moment of reflective decision it is possible to do it all over again--after enduring far more strain than any resolute person needs in order to be in the thick of things.
