Time&Eternity

No Concept of Time without Narrated Time 59
Relationships that require time to develop are impeded. Encounters with
the unfamiliar, the foreign, which are dependent upon the ability to accept
differences and the will to deal with them patiently, are prevented.
The most extreme consequence of such a concept of time can be found
in increasing violence and in the inability to encounter the unfamiliar. 372
The lack of time has then become, in the most literal sense, chronic—
caused by time itself, which has lost its relationship as partner to eternity.
The relationship between time and eternity has become unclear and
problematic. The relation between time and eternity, which once appeared
to be so self-evident, now seems to be shattered. With this knowledge as its
point of reference, the following chapter discusses biblical and theological
concepts of time.