Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @_matthewpearson

@_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 or linked post

Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Jun 2022

@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.

Image attached to this archived post
View this post’s context →

Context in the archive

Quoted by@LateLightBISR @materialist_jew "Hell, the Heaven we weren't yet able for." Consider Abraham Joshua Heschel, who provides universal messianism a crucial, evolutionary link yoking the architecture of redemptive time to a Messianic Day of concrete, planetary political transformation.