tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post8123438898435444340..comments2024-03-24T09:31:01.300+00:00Comments on Shiny Ginger Thoughts: Lost time, lost spaceDaniel Blanchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15525641726889468099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-77767720434926378462018-10-16T14:59:28.851+01:002018-10-16T14:59:28.851+01:00I'm not a Sabbatarian (although I think keepin...I'm not a Sabbatarian (although I think keeping Sabbath is crucial; puzzling, huh?) - but I do observe the rhythm of the church year and would encourage anyone else to do so. This is not because it makes time sacred. In fact, 'fulfilled time' (Barth's phrase) is the time of Jesus Christ. What the ecclesial year seeks to do is to relate our (fallen) time to Christ's time, as a sign and symbol. So we don't experience the reality of sacred time (or space) in this life, but we can have symbols of it. (This is also why I am pro-church buildings, and believe these should be 'sanctuaries' of sorts).Daniel Blanchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15525641726889468099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30436844.post-21317358473193664072018-10-16T09:51:10.303+01:002018-10-16T09:51:10.303+01:00I think this is deeply profound & insightful, ...I think this is deeply profound & insightful, Dan! <br />I love the insight into time being central in Gen 1, and hadn't thought of connecting the Deuteronomy verses – but it totally makes sense. <br />I'm interested in how the trajectory of sacred time gets reconfigured when it comes to the New Covenant. I'm sure there's a good book to write there!<br />You mention the 'not yet': "Until the redemption of creation, this is going to be our experience."<br />What about the 'already'? Christ fulfils the longing & need for sacred space, but he also fulfils the longing and need for sacred time...i.e., he fulfils the festivals and feasts of the Torah (e.g. John 7) just as much as he fulfils the sacrifices, and in him we, the corporate body, offer our individual bodies as living sacrifices. I can't help but feel some great attraction to the Anglican church's calendar as a wonderfully 'fitting' way to reconfigure the sacred time/feasts & tabernacles of the Torah in light of Christ. Yet I'm a Reformed/Evangelical 'baptist' - my tradition tends to do away with that and keep hold of the Sabbath. I believe you're not a Sabbatharian either but do you, like me, struggle to see how that also doesn't have a minimal fittingness when looking at the theme of 'sacred time'?Michael Baldwinnoreply@blogger.com