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@MarlonMillner 1/ #Breakfree the simultaneity. Adorno: “Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption.” And Moltmann: “The messianic interpretation of the experience of the moment that ends and gathers up time is 'the redemption of the future' from the power of history."

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sitting alongside one another
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 10 Aug 2022

@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.

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…
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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…

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @moltmannjuergen "The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down. The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope." - Juergen MoltmannQuoted by@moltmannjuergen "The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down. The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope." - Juergen Moltmann