Christology, Time, and Scientific Modernity

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While human existence in time is determined by the time of Jesus Christ, by the logic of the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension, the predominant accounts of time in the modern West have proceeded from a very different basis. The implications of these approaches are not merely a matter of epistemology or of abstract doctrinal and philosophical claims. Rather, they have had, and continue to have, concrete ramifications for human life together. They have overwhelmingly been death dealing rather than life giving, marked by a series of temporal morals and errors that this course seeks to address. As a counterexample, this course will read Søren Kierkegaard alongside Karl Barth to highlight the ways both figures rejected a Hegelian approach to time that was, and is, not coincidentally intertwined with a radicalized account of history and the co opting of Christianity by the modern Western state.

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