salvation is not escapism.

April 19th, 2007 § 1 comment

Robert Jenson, A Large Catechism (p.8):

In our fallen religion, we think salvation would be escape from temporal existence, from the threats and opportunities of an open future…. But the true God is the one coming as the future rushes upon us; he is life rather than release from life. His very identity is set by what he does in time.

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