RT @nick_routledge: @jamespoulos It's the pendulum swing, isn't it? I suspect the hands-on, saving alternative to beast-like empire is rarely more clearly described than by rootsy US theologians just now. As such, I'm all over the work of @BrianZahnd and @brianmclaren, both of whom have cracked the Kingdom code.
@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.