This is great! I woke up this morning wondering what David Armstrong thought about the Dormition, and here it is!
Two questions-
You say
“The real question is of course whether the eschatological resurrection is to be an event in history, the sort that you could film and put on YouTube or see on the news, or if it is an event that transcends history, and therefore whose timing cannot necessarily be placed on a linear scale commensurate with, say, the Death of Charlemagne or the arrival of Buddhism in China.”
My understanding of the coming of Christ from the time I became a Christian was always that this was the intersection of time and eternity. That it was in a sense Eternity invading and lifting up time. So it’s not something that could be uploaded to YouTube, but that it’s also an event that happens on a time line, even if that moment also transcends itself. I never conceived of it as Jesus descending from the clouds in an especially shiny form in such a way that I could snap a photo. What about that? And I also wonder how Bulgakov saw it. I have read his speculations on the resurrection and Parousia but I can’t claim to have really understood it.
Next, I was really intrigued by your comments about the deified Moses guiding the writings of the Pentateuch in your interview with Jordan Wood. Would you be willing to say more about that? That would still presuppose that we see Moses as an historical figure that was then deified, no?
This is great! I woke up this morning wondering what David Armstrong thought about the Dormition, and here it is!
Two questions-
You say
“The real question is of course whether the eschatological resurrection is to be an event in history, the sort that you could film and put on YouTube or see on the news, or if it is an event that transcends history, and therefore whose timing cannot necessarily be placed on a linear scale commensurate with, say, the Death of Charlemagne or the arrival of Buddhism in China.”
My understanding of the coming of Christ from the time I became a Christian was always that this was the intersection of time and eternity. That it was in a sense Eternity invading and lifting up time. So it’s not something that could be uploaded to YouTube, but that it’s also an event that happens on a time line, even if that moment also transcends itself. I never conceived of it as Jesus descending from the clouds in an especially shiny form in such a way that I could snap a photo. What about that? And I also wonder how Bulgakov saw it. I have read his speculations on the resurrection and Parousia but I can’t claim to have really understood it.
Next, I was really intrigued by your comments about the deified Moses guiding the writings of the Pentateuch in your interview with Jordan Wood. Would you be willing to say more about that? That would still presuppose that we see Moses as an historical figure that was then deified, no?