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@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM Perhaps let what we know of the character and will of Jesus as revealed in Scripture reshape our images of the the Parousia Event? “Only when the apocalyptic expectation of judgment is completely Christianized does it lose its terror and become a liberating hope.” - Moltmann

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CACRadicalGrace @UniteThePoor Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the new word of creation: ‘Behold, I make all things new’ (Rev. 21.5).”Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @UniteThePoor Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the new word of creation: ‘Behold, I make all things new’ (Rev. 21.5).”Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CenteringPrayer A second Advent message? What we are now encountering is not the End of the World, but that confusing historical moment of evolutionary proportions when the way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Michael Meade: “Welcome to the end of the world as we knew it.”Quoted by@CenteringPrayer A second Advent message? What we are now encountering is not the End of the World, but that confusing historical moment of evolutionary proportions when the way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Michael Meade: “Welcome to the end of the world as we knew it.”Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RevDrBarber “...wanting the gospel narrative to be true but reluctant to speak another language about the world other than the one in which we are palpably invested...The only safety on offer is the embrace of attentive compassion that summons us and calls us by name” - Walter BrueggemannQuoted by@RevDrBarber “...wanting the gospel narrative to be true but reluctant to speak another language about the world other than the one in which we are palpably invested...The only safety on offer is the embrace of attentive compassion that summons us and calls us by name” - Walter Brueggemann