tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post4167649685812414648..comments2023-11-11T21:26:46.689+00:00Comments on This Side of Sunday: A Brief History of Christian Forgiveness, Part 2Jon Couttshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-1637704784452197082009-11-09T13:52:25.585+00:002009-11-09T13:52:25.585+00:00"How to experience the event consistently&quo..."How to experience the event consistently". Yeah, that is the issue. <br /><br />But, as such are <i>we</i> ever to be conceived of as "ensuring this event"? Are we the acting agents in this event's happening (not just in the past but in the present)? <br /><br />Whose history is this exactly? Whose action? These are the questions Barth has been asking me to consider.Jon Couttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728055140831842717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18173351.post-40961071022737728092009-11-06T14:34:14.625+00:002009-11-06T14:34:14.625+00:00ooo, "perpetually startling event", i li...ooo, "perpetually startling event", i like that. The issue, it seems to me, is how to experience the event consistently on an individual and/or institutional level. And the tension surfaces again..."become what you are", "already/not yet", ie ensuring this event is more than a historical reality but a current (existential?) one. The grace of God continues to amaze, comfort, and baffle me. StuAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com