Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@jamesodea #juergenmoltmann: "That is how John on Patmos saw the Last Judgment of the world - not as annihilation, or universal conflagration, or death in a cosmic winter. He saw it as the first day of the new creation of all things: 'See, I am making all things new' " (Rev. 21.5).

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Quoted by@CenteringPrayer A vision appropriate to our age must therefore not focus solely on disarray and dissolution. Amidst the confusion, constriction, violence and chaos, it must also convey the sense of a positive simultaneity coming into view - the promise and advent of a new reality, a new world.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @stuartblair @pmkofahl @wjlanesr @LauraRbnsn @smith_jeniffer Admittedly, if we placed our long bet on materialist or religious fetishism, I suppose history passing into its definitive consummation in God does land grimly. As Buddhist psychotherapist John Welwood clarifies: “Self knowledge is always bad news, at least initially.”Quoted by@ThomasJTobin1 Perhaps a fresh start is in order?Quoted by@stuartblair @pmkofahl @wjlanesr @LauraRbnsn @smith_jeniffer Admittedly, if we placed our long bet on materialist or religious fetishism, I suppose history passing into its definitive consummation in God does land grimly. As Buddhist psychotherapist John Welwood clarifies: “Self knowledge is always bad news, at least initially.”