@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM When asked, "Why evil?" Ramskrishna responded, "To thicken the plot." Juergen Moltmann: "That is why the history of Christ is subject to what Ernst Kasemann calls 'the eschatological proviso' and is engraved with the hallmark of eschatological anticipation."
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Copy of tweet: As in the parable of the wheat and the tares, #Christ and anti-Christ are intermingled and concomitant until '#apocalypsis', the moment of vision and decision is reached.
@ethicalzac @nils_gilman @totallyfeckless @aufgehendeRest Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.
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