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RT @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.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 10 Apr 2022

@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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Quoted by@LAReviewofBooks @QuincyInst 2/ "It has become almost morally impermissible in Western public debate to focus on the conditions for advantageous short-term peace." Clear enough. Time, then, for a planetary response transcending the ontological substrate of Western triumphalism and the reality it maintains.Quoted by@_matthewpearson @PerfInjust @TDukeman Perhaps consideration of modern political theology as it relates to planetary messianism may prove timely and illuminating? Heschel: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."Quoted by@JYSexton On the nose, as usual. Could we also allow that at a deeper level, our political predicament is but a symptom of the very same substrative epistemological error constraining our field of perception and liberating activity, the possibility, promise and potential of a new paradigm?Quoted by@MassimoFaggioli We say the same about historians who dismiss theology.