MDDM 35 Christ and History

[Otto]

>
> The possibility is that Christ's bodily resurrection is a fact. Then,
> and only then, history would be provided with an origin and a goal, it
> would be linear and teleological, a single chain of cause and effect, an
> event from which all the secular consequences flow, "design'd and willed
> to occur". History would have a sense and a reason, and all secular
> events (...) in a broader sense also (...) would be redeemed by the grand
scheme.
>

Like the plot of a pre-modern novel I'd say.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Eckhardt
To: Samuel Moyer
Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:40 AM
Re: re MDDM 35 Christ and History