Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time
Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time
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预言和不久的将来：对宏观经济、福音派和间断时间的思考
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2007
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J. Guyer
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J. Guyer
20世纪50年代和60年代英国的一种观点表明，美国的时间性公共文化已经从对近期未来的推理的结果性关注转变为对当前情况的反应和对非常长期的视野的定位的结合。这种时间观点在宏观经济学的公开言论中最为显著，但它也以显著的方式与福音派的时间观相对应。在这篇文章中，我通过考察宗教和经济学领域内不同的理论立场，追踪了这种转向的选择性和协调性。最后，我认为，不久的将来将被各种形式的间断时间所重新占据，比如债务的日期表和其他特定的事件驱动的时间框架。
A view from 1950s and 1960s Britain suggests that the public culture of temporality in the United States has shifted from a consequential focus on reasoning toward the near future to a combination of response to immediate situations and orientation to a very long-term horizon. This temporal perspective is most marked in the public rhetoric of macroeconomics, but it also corresponds in remarkable ways to evangelicals' views of time. In this article, I trace the optionality and consonance of this shift toward the relative evacuation of the near future in religion and economics by examining different theoretical positions within each domain. In conclusion, I suggest that the near future is being reinhabited by forms of punctuated time, such as the dated schedules of debt and other specific event-driven temporal frames.