apocalyptic literature in the Bible is interested not in chronos (“clock time,” as Heidegger calls it) but in kairos, a fullness of time, a time charged in a way that can’t be simply measured. Christian eschatological hope is a kairological orientation to an inbreaking future that makes an impact on our present. The end-times countdown is a decline narrative: the clock is ticking to the rapture; everything in the meantime is just time endured before the escape pod descends. In contrast, spiritual timekeeping tries to discern where the Spirit’s restoration is already afoot in creation’s
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