Remembering the Future

The Experience of Time in Jewish and Christian Theology

By: Emma O'Donnell

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Paperback | 23 November 2015

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Common to both Judaism and Christianity is a heightened engagement with time within liturgical practice, in which collective religious memory and anticipation come together to create a unique sense of time. Exploring the nebulous realms of religious experience and the sense of time, Remembering the Future charts the ways that the experience of time is shaped by the traditions of Judaism and Christianity and experienced within their ritual practices.

Through comparative explorations of traditional Jewish and Christian understandings of time, contemporary oral testimonies, and discussions of the work of select twentieth-century Jewish and Christian thinkers, this book maps the temporal landscapes of the religious imagination. Maintaining that the sense of time is integral to Jewish and Christian religious experience, Remembering the Future makes a notable contribution to interreligious studies and liturgical studies. It sheds light on essential aspects of religious experience and finds that the intimacy of the experience of time grants it the capacity to communicate across religious boundaries, subtly transgressing obstacles to interreligious understanding.

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This book--both scholarly and highly personal--analyzes how the practice of liturgy redefines and enriches the experience of time in its spiritual dimensions. Emma O'Donnell performs a feat that few can equal, bringing together Jewish and Christian practices and understandings so that both sides can feel that she has their own interests and sympathies at heart. Strong on both theology and critical theory, this book draws particularly on sensitive interviews with those deeply engaged in the liturgical lives of their respective communities. The spirit of Vatican II is alive and well in this remarkable book, which must be read and meditated on as a prolegomenon to liturgical studies in a comparative setting.
Theodore A. Perry, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Comparative Literature University of Connecticut

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