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The times they are a-changin’

28/02/2017 Leave a comment 929 Views

Queensland Synod moderator, Rev David Baker. Photo: Ben Rogers

The ancient Greeks had two words for time: chronos and kairos. Chronos is the passage of ordinary time; hours, days, months, years, however we measure that mysterious quality. Kairos is the idea of time as being of significance; that quality of a period of time that holds a more profound significance than any other time. “It was the right time,” ...

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