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“Ever since the beginning of the middle-class era, with its faith in progress, belief in progress has dominated the upbringing of children too. Childhood now came to be understood only as the preliminary stage on the way to the full personhood of the adult… Every lived moment has an eternal significance and already constitutes a fulfilled life. For fulfilled life is not measured by the number of years that have been lived through, or spent in one way or another. It is measured according to the depth of lived experience.”

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“Lehrsätze finden ihre Wahrheit in ihrer kontrollierbaren Entsprechung zur vorliegenden erfahrbaren Wirklichkeit. Die Hoffnungssätze der Verheißung aber müssen in einen Widerspruch zur gegenwärtig erfahrbaren Wirklichkeit treten. Sie resultieren nicht aus Erfahrungen, sondern sind die Bedingung für die Möglichkeit neuer Erfahrungen. Sie wollen nicht die Wirklichkeit erhellen, die da ist, sondern die Wirklichkeit, die kommt. Sie wollen die Wirklichkeit, die da ist, nicht im Geiste abbilden, sondern die Wirklichkeit, die da ist, in die Veränderung hineinführen, die verheißen ist und erhofft wird. Sie wollen der Wirklichkeit nicht die Schleppe nachtragen, sondern die Fad\:el voran. Damit machen sie die Wirklichkeit geschichtlich. Wird aber die Wirklichkeit geschichtlich wahrgenommen, so muß man mit]. G. Hamann fragen: "Wer will vom Gegenwärtigen richtige Begriffe nehmen, ohne das Zukünftige zu wissen?”

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Book:Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
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“The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.”

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“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.”

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“Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.”

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