Introduction: Time
Fall 2016
Time (photocopy)
Technology and Time
Michael Hanby“[T]ime is fundamentally a question of an order of being in which we are at home.”
The Consummation of the World as a Re-capitulation
Martin Bieler“Time is the fundamental basis of all life, and the reception and formation of time is as vital for us as inhalation and exhalation.”
The Experience of the Unity of Time and Christian Faith in the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich
Ricardo Aldana“The structure of time evinces that being has been created with love.”
Being, Gift, Self-Gift (Part Two)
David L. Schindler“Participation in love, which takes the form of responsive generosity, defines one’s most basic act as a creature.”
Giving Time: The Trinitarian Origin of Created Spatio-Temporality
Ferdinand Ulrich“In the midst of the empty present of the lost son, the Father is the liberating ‘today’ of the ever-greater future of love.”
“Once upon a Time”: Preserving the Past in a Presence Open to the Future
Ferdinand Ulrich“Freedom is only free for the future by virtue of a fulfilled present that is grounded in the past.”
Retrieving the Tradition
The Mystery of the Liturgical Year: The Easter Liturgy
Louis Bouyer“Our created nature is so bound up with this created time in which all living beings live that our being cannot be taken up into the divine unless the time which is connatural to us is also in some way taken up.”