Kierkegaard says, in the Christian understanding of time, the instant of revelation—and the instant in which I am confronted by such revelation—is a decisive “moment” that changes everything. Things change in time, and that change is momentous—an emigration from darkness to light (Eph. 5:8), from death to life (Eph. 2:4–5), from nonbeing to being (1 Cor. 1:28). The moment is charged and pregnant, a turning point for the cosmos. History matters. What happens makes a difference. When I, at some point in time, am confronted with the mystery that the eternal God became human in the fullness of
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