The Fullness of Time

“Here you will find a deep, thoughtful presentation of time through the lens of faith in God as grounded in the person and teachings of Jesus Christ. Drawing on the wisdom of great thinkers like Kierkegaard and Barth, scholar-priest Kara Slade deftly leads us through beginnings and endings, through times between and beyond, ultimately to find ourselves called, as she says, first ‘to our knees, and then to our feet.’”


—Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and author of Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times





“How shall we think about time, that universal yet most elusive of human experiences? In The Fullness of Time, Kara Slade provides a useful therapy against certain Big Idea concepts of time: Big History, Big Science, Big Globalizaton. Taking Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth as her guides, she helps us imagine what it might mean to inhabit time as healed in Jesus Christ. Besides being beautifully written, this is a work of rare wisdom and theological insight.”


—Joseph Mangina, Professor of Systematic Theology, Wycliffe College





“Theological discussions of time can show us theology at its driest and least engaging, where a grounding in analytic philosophy or physics can do the style no favors. In sharpest contrast, Kara Slade’s Fullness of Time is as lively and engaging a discussion of time as we could desire. She manages to be both lyrical and provocative, both erudite and practical, and as grounded in the theological tradition (especially through Kierkegaard and Barth) as she is alert to the mood and needs of our times.”


—Andrew Davison, Starbridge Senior Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge