@JTasioulas Rudolph Steiner claimed the Jesus Event brought the power of the Sun to the Earth, where "the sunburst of the messianic" (George Steiner) describes the anticipated advent - neither peculiarly Christian nor singularly religious - of planetary prophetology's unifying articulation.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge So beautifully stated and so magnificently true. “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." - @moltmannjuergen With painting of geometric image and calligraphy reading: Living an authentic life means rejecting the hypocrisy of a society that claims to be democratic, but which violates the most elementary dignities of the Black community. It requires we must proclaim the liberation of the captives. It requires we must raise the hopes of a people who suffer age-old injustice.
@jbralston 2/ ...where few interpreters describe the evolutionary ontology of a Cycle of Occultation, 'dawr al-satyr', and Cycle of Epiphany or Unveiling, 'dawr al-kashf' (or 'apocalypsis' as it's described with reference to the Parousia of Christ) as precisely as Shi'ite sources.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel, at once Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr's closest non-Black ally and Judaism's foremost modern authority on the Old Testament prophets, reflected on such dynamic 'unfinishedness' in similarly apocalyptic terms. Not apocalyptic in the sense in which the word is used colloquially to refer to catastrophes but in the word’s original sense of revelation or unveiling. "History," he observed, "is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed." On the one hand, Heschel averred that the primary role of the prophet is to alert humanity to its missing of The Major Point, namely, "the involvement of God in history": and on the other, to the staggering realpolitik of a human counterpoint: "Impartiality with regards to history is a pretense." Such prophetic discernment isn't simply timeless and universal, of course: it's also current and immediate. Notes the...