The Burial of God: Rupture and Resumption as the Story of Salvation
Keyword(s):
The Real
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Jon Sobrino has suggested that those who stand in the intellectual tradition of the Enlightenment tend to interpret suffering and disaster as ‘crises of meaning’, by which we seek to explain and accommodate alienating experiences within preconceived models of reality. Our question is how evil may be understood. But that search for meaning is a luxury denied those who can barely hold to existence itself. Theirs is a ‘crisis of reality’; and their question is less how to understand evil than how to withstand it, to overcome suffering or at least survive it. ‘The interpretative models become relevant [only] to the extent that they arise out of the experienced reality and aim at eliminating the wretched state of the real world’.
1998 ◽
Vol 39
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pp. 935-936
2010 ◽
Vol 20
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pp. 100-105
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2005 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 112-112
1996 ◽
Vol 13
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pp. 61-72
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1976 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 303-310
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