| 单词 |
kairos |
| 释义 |
‖ kairos|ˈkaɪrɒs|
[Gr. καιρός right or proper time.]
Fullness of time; the propitious moment for the performance of an action or the coming into being of a new state.
1936E. L. Talmey tr. Tillich's Interpretation of Hist. ii. ii. 129 We call this fulfilled moment, the moment of time approaching us as fate and decision, Kairos. In doing this we take up a word that was, to be sure, created by the Greek linguistic sense, but attained the deeper meaning of fullness of time, of decisive time, only in the thinking of early Christianity and its historical consciousness. 1939V. A. Demant Religious Prospect viii. 220 A teaching that all man can know is how to respond to the Unconditioned at each moment of decision, which he calls the Kairos. 1948J. L. Adams tr. Tillich's Protestant Era (1951) i. iii. 47 Every kairos is..implicitly..an actualization of the unique kairos, the appearance of the Christ. Ibid. 48 We are convinced that today a kairos, an epochal moment of history, is visible. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand iii. 140 The Greek notion of Kairos, the propitious moment for doing something, contained the seed of the notion of punctuality. |
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