Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @nick_routledge

The messianic interpretation of the experience of the moment that ends & gathers up time is 'the redemption of the future' from the power of history. The eschaton, neither the future of time, nor timeless eternity, is God's coming and arrival. - Moltmann

Quoted or linked post

Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 31 May 2019

"For the rebirth of messianic thinking out of the catastrophe of Christian humanism in WWI, we are indebted to #martinbuber, #ernstbloch & #franzrosenweig, #walterbenjamin & #theodoradorno, #gershomscholem & #margaretesusman, and after WWII... #karllowith & #jacobtaubes." 1/

View this post’s context →

Context in the archive

Quoted by@sssfCommunity @JuergenMoltmann 2/ “When Jesus proclaims that the kingdom of God is 'at hand', he is not looking into the future in a temporal sense; he is looking into the heaven of the present. The kingdom does not 'come' out of the future into the present. It comes from heaven to earth..." #juergenmoltmannQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @kebayf Yes, Moltmann’s “messianic hope” and, also, “deeds which, as it were, help to bring about the redemption.” - Scholem. Likewise, Heschel: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."Quoted by@kebayf Yes, Moltmann’s “messianic hope” and, also, “deeds which, as it were, help to bring about the redemption.” - Scholem. Likewise, Heschel: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."Quoted by@moshik_temkin Yup. And perspective evolves, along with everything else. Hence, ultimately, the functional requirement and effect of interruptive Good News: the Eschatological Event.Quoted by@AndrewRyder779 @MelissaFloBix Of note: the post-Shoah, German-Swiss are largely responsible for the rebirth and recognition of messianism as a credible, concrete, modern, Xian phenomenon. In that vein, planetarily-speaking @UniteThePoor I refer to my Church as ‘universalist messianic’. ?s=20