@BrianZahnd @LooneyYeager Brian, I'm ploughing through your corpus at the moment. Farewell to Mars, greatly appreciated, just now. Curious if you can point to any voices coherently addressing Kingdom themes in terms of Second as distinct from First Advent dynamics. Anywhere, specifically, in N.T. Wright?
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Copy of tweet thread here: 2/3 Hereabouts, I suspect few, if any, will refer to Moltmann's explicit affirmation of the American experiment as the messianic experiment of modernity. An endemic, epistemological substrate of religious and political exceptionalism dictates a form of separatist blindness to it. end/ No matter. Moltmann’s pivotal, global role breaking the fatality hanging over Christian messianism in the modern era is complete. 'The powers' upon these our shores can no more deny a reckoning with the eschatological proviso of planetary parousia than defy the power of God.
@pauljpastor 2/ The fallacy, pardonable. For the most part, the Church's interpretation of the sunburst of the messianic remains shockingly threadbare relative to, say, other traditions - an oversight reflecting, in part, an occupational bias favoring the First Coming over the Second.
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Copy of tweet here: 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.