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Document Details : Title: De tand des tijds Subtitle: Over het betekenisverlies van kerkelijke tijdmetaforen in moderne samenlevingen Author(s): BROOKE, Grant Journal: Tijdschrift voor Theologie Volume: 51 Issue: 3 Date: 2011 Pages: 245-258 DOI: 10.2143/TVT.51.3.3203387 Abstract : Time is unavoidably and solely expressed in metaphor, and much of the past theological treatments of time serve to harden these metaphors into a religious reality. This essay delves into questions about the rise of these metaphors, their ongoing effectiveness in modernity, and what the Western religious traditions may have to say to an emerging conception of time. By taking a cursory and example-establishing look at the doctrine of purgatory, and its slow devolution, we may claim that notions of time are quickly secularizing and de-institutionalizing. The essay suggests that by asserting the degree to which the tradition itself secularized time, and setting aside much of the linguistic time dogma theology has built up over the centuries, the tradition may find itself having quite a bit of relevance and causality to the current frame of timed existence. |
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