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@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.“

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Feb 2022

@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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Quoted by@ThinkingFaith Given the Clauswitzian escalation in Northcott’s ‘crescendo toward paroxysm’, I’m curious if Michael or others in the Girard, Agamben, Žižek theo-political orbit are hip to Moltmann’s eschatology and further, the political theology of contemporary Islamic messianism? @jbralston