n encouraging quotation from Jürgen Moltmann:

"Time is determined by what happens in it. ‘For everything there is a season’ (Ecclesiastes 3.1). Theologically, time is determined by the presence or absence of God — that is to say, by the different modes of his presence in time. There is a ‘time of the law,’ there is a ‘time of the gospel,’ there is a ‘time of the Messiah’ and there is a time of ‘the sabbath of the Lord’; and there is a ‘time of eternity.’ …

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et me recommend a discussion on usury at Date-Dabitur between Thomas Renz, Scott C. Mooney and Chad Degenhart. (Renz’s position is summarised in his Theses on Usury Then and Now, developed out of the discussion.) I find Renz’s dialogue in particular to be a model of Christian scholarly engagement.

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