@ShaneClaiborne end/ As such, in eschatologically-inclusive Islamo-Judeo-Christian terms, the Palestinian Event defines a cosmic threshold severing truth from falsehood, wheat from tares, and the new world creation from an Extinction Tyranny’s ‘final crisis.’ So shall evil be destroyed.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Our prophets universally Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @UssamaMakdisi Our prophets universally depict this momentous revelation of the monstrous, wholesale moral destitution of our primary, international 'superpowers', as the rending of a well-wrought veil of deceit, a historical bifurcation point defining a providential, planetary dividing line. t.co/d7nQzH0V2E
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Folks might also Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @mehdirhasan Folks might also not be aware the Cycle of Unveiling or 'dawr al-kashf' of the Shi'ite Hidden Imam or 'qāʾim', correlates precisely with Judeo-Christian interpretation of the 'apocalypsis' or unveiling of 'the sunburst of the messianic'. And why ever would it not? t.co/WfT9pUEVol
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: An astute anticipated Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @medialens An astute, anticipated distinction. The original meaning of ‘apocalypsis’? Unveiling. A 'Day' or 'Hour' of vision, decision and liberating experience in which legacy forms of authority, credibility, legitimacy and agency are espistemically demolished by the force of truth itself. t.co/s3GVTcKZ2N
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: To see is Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.
Open original document@holland_tom How about the inclusive eschatology of a 'universal' or 'planetary prophetological', as distinct from a manifestly or exclusively 'Christian' take? Abraham Joshua Heschel: "History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed."
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Copy of tweet: Adorno is authoritative in this regard: “Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption.” Likewise, 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.“