Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@BremenBod "Another kind of political fulfillment of the millenarian hope is the idea of the nation whose destiny, according to God’s salvific plan, is the redemption of the world. What has to be taken seriously is the USA’s strange millenarian mythology because it has a genuine basis." 2/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @WaltBrueggemann A powerful, double resonance in this with Moltmann's emphatically US-centric take on "the messianic myth of the redeemer nation of the End-time," and also of messianic hope as "never the hope of the victors and the rulers [but] always the hope of the defeated & the ground down."Quoted by@WaltBrueggemann A powerful, double resonance in this with Moltmann's emphatically US-centric take on "the messianic myth of the redeemer nation of the End-time," and also of messianic hope as "never the hope of the victors and the rulers [but] always the hope of the defeated & the ground down."