God Is Not Timeless: The Story of Israel

Summenary Ep. 2. NOTE: If you want to read along in this series on Robert Jenson’s A Theology in Outline, you can find the PDF of next week’s reading below:We take up chapter 2 in Robert Jenson’s A Theology In Outline: Can These Bones Live? discussing the story of Israel with her unusual, timely God. Here are a few quick quotes from Jenson on God and time:“The gods of the great myths are ‘eternal’ in that they never change, but are timeless like the cyclical patterns [of the seasons]; [YHWH] is ‘eternal’ in that he is actively faithful to his promises, acting in time to make and fulfill them.”“God’s eternity is not that for him everything is already past, but that in love everything is still open, including the past. His eternity is that he can never be surpassed, never caught up with. He anticipates the future in the sense that however we press forward in time, we always find that God has already been there and is now ahead calling us on.”“It indeed better suits the gospel’s God to speak of ‘God’s time’ and ‘created time,’ taking ‘time’ as an analogous concept, than to think of God as not having time… God takes time in his time for us.”“God took time from our time to be His eternity…” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cameroncombs.substack.com