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Cruciform Character (1967)
Volume 31. Argo, 1996.
5 Cassettes [Transcript: 65 pages]
Only this has become past which at one time beckoned the people as future. And only that deserves to exist as long as it still enlivens and enthuses people as a dream of the future. ...We become part of the story only when we take part at a time when the story hasn’t yet become history.
March 1967
These lectures set out to differentiate between scientific (or cyclical) history, which is how all of us were commonly educated in school, on the one hand, and "cruciform history" on the other. Scientific history reviews past facts, and puts current mankind outside the events. Cruciform history puts mankind inside events and believes that people take responsibility and try to create a future guided by their dreams. Having laid out this contrast, the remaining lectures indicate specific examples of how viewing history as cruciform can be fruitful. This lecture also describes a fundamental building block for the author’s views on the future of Christianity. Five 1-hour lectures.
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