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RT @nick_routledge: @moshik_temkin In concrete, planetary, geopolitical terms, the messianic interpretation of ‘apocalypsis’ includes the redemption of the future from the power of history.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Sept 2021

@shorewalker1 @nils_gilman History tends to the fuller and fuller revelation of the mystery of evil. History, therefore, follows an apocalyptic logic. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling.

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Quoted by@nils_gilman Adorno is authoritative in this regard: “Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption.” Likewise, Moltmann: “The messianic interpretation of the experience of the moment that ends and gathers up time is 'the redemption of the future' from the power of history.“Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @billymoose Indeed, as the prophets have always understood, the whole story, being but a story, shifts. And shifts for everybody, in ways we each particularly relate to life. “Political and fleshly emancipation are finally one and the same; the god of epiphany is #Dionysus." N.O. BrownQuoted by@billymoose Indeed, as the prophets have always understood, the whole story, being but a story, shifts. And shifts for everybody, in ways we each particularly relate to life. “Political and fleshly emancipation are finally one and the same; the god of epiphany is #Dionysus." N.O. Brown