Christianity & Jesus

 we realize just how crucial time is to Christian faith. . . For Christianity, the ultimate meanings of life are not revealed by universal, timeless statements but by concrete acts of God. In the fullness of time, God invades our history, assumes our flesh, heals, teaches, and eats with sinners. There is a specific historical and spatial setting to it all . . . .

For Christians (as for Jews), life and worship revolve around the structure of time--the cyclical rhythm of days, weeks, months, and years. The structure of time permits us the ability to consider, commemorate, and reexperience the temporal events through which God delights in making known His immanence.

Christians can certainly be distinguished by our manner of keeping time (or marking its passage). Indeed, according to Mark 1:15 (NASB), "The time is fulfilled, and the k

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eschatological expectation. The Jewish civil year commences in the month of Tishri (September/October), while we have already seen that the Jewish religious year begins with Nisan (March/April)--they are counterbalances to one another. According to Jewish commentators, the world was created in Tishri, the Patriarchs were born (and later died) in Tishri, on New Year Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah were each visited by the Lord, Joseph was released from prison on New Year, on New Year the Egyptian period ended; "in Nisan they were redeemed and in Tishri they will be redeemed in the time to come," are the words of R. Eliezer. Epiphany (January 6) is not well-known in the Christian church today, but according to Hickman, et al., it is an older observance and is perhaps an even more important part of church history. Its origin can be traced to the late second century, and the word means "manifestation." In Christian use, Epiphany most clearly refers to the manifestation of God in Christ Jesus. Tradition has ascribed to the feast of Epiphany the birth of Jesus, his baptism, and the first miracle at Cana (in the Gospel According to John, Jesus revealed (ephanerosen) His glory). For Christians, each of these incidents bears a common
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