Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

It is not history that puts an end to eschatology; it is eschatology that puts an end to history. It is the transcendent breaking-in of eternity that plunges all human history into its final crisis. #juergenmoltmann facebook.com/nick.routledge.39/posts/2401318326618810

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Quoted by@sssfCommunity 1/ “Millenarianism looks toward future history, the history of the end; eschatology looks towards the future of history, the end of history. Consequently, the two sides of eschatology belong together as goal and end, history’s consummation and its rupture.” @juergenmoltmannQuoted by@nils_gilman @stewartbrand Our prophets, of course, universally anticipate just such a bifurcation point at the planetary level - noospheric consciousness coalescing in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. Ultimately, Abraham Joshua Heschel notes, “Mystery is surpassed by meaning.”