@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.
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Paul Klee. I Am Sent to Relieve Mankind of a Nightmare (plate facing page 32) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions). 1919… moma.org/collection/wor…
@_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."
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