Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 9 Apr 2022

@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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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @johnrobb Half-assed, any evolutionary perspective which eschews the function of political theology in 'escaping the overwhelming ideological force of claims about the inevitability of 'the catastrophic present' as professional historians @nils_gilman and @moshik_temkin describe it, below.Quoted by@johnrobb Half-assed, any evolutionary perspective which eschews the function of political theology in 'escaping the overwhelming ideological force of claims about the inevitability of 'the catastrophic present' as professional historians @nils_gilman and @moshik_temkin describe it, below.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @leashless 1/ Myself, 26 years as a mendicant, serving the poor: our experience, perspective and interpretation dovetail. Absurd, I find, no 'serious' discussion addressing the functional requirement and effect of a Paradigm Shift universally anticipated throughout planetary prophetology.Quoted by@leashless 1/ Myself, 26 years as a mendicant, serving the poor: our experience, perspective and interpretation dovetail. Absurd, I find, no 'serious' discussion addressing the functional requirement and effect of a Paradigm Shift universally anticipated throughout planetary prophetology.