@SophiaCycles Indeed, an about-turn so totalizing that its planetary advent amounts to the redemption of the future from the power of history. @UniteThePoor
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Copy of tweet: 9/16 #AJHeschel: Justice bespeaks a situation that transcends the individual; historical justice is the illumination of all men, enabling the inhabitants of the world to learn righteousness. Its validity is not only universal, but also eternal.
"What is called the end of history is simply the end of temporal history and the beginning of the eternal history of life." ~ Juergen Moltmann
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What does it mean, then, to speak of ‘a Politics to Come’ today? Where does it come from? And why has it emerged now? Is it – to be crude – a step backwards into premodern theological dogma? Is it – equally crudely – the final nail in the coffin of an exhausted Enlightenment utopianism or communism? Or could this wary messianism – which despite every attempt to assimilate it still remains somehow stubbornly irreducible to the sovereign order of neo-liberal modernity – perhaps represent a way of thinking the theologico-political condition of modernity otherwise? Why has the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come reasserted itself now? Is it a ‘turn’ or a ‘return’? Is it a monstrous anachronism, postmodern kitsch or the logical outworking of modernity’s own theological origins? To what extent might it be the basis of a new political theology – or the sign of an irreducible theological remainder within the political? Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher