RT @nick_routledge: @Dan_Bowdoin 1/3 A rising chorus. At the non-highfalutin, Stateside street level, @brianmclaren and @BrianZahnd have a rep for powerfully lucid, 'second go-round' Kingdom hermaneutics in answer to smarts such as Alfred Loisy's: "Jesus announced the Kingdom and it was the Church that arrived."
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Copy of tweet here: I'm reading Brian McLaren's "Faith After Doubt" and he offers an eye-opening statistic: about 2.7 million Americans will say good-bye to institutional religious observance each year. That means approximately 7400 people will step away from church today, and every day. Followed by the tweet and quote tweet here:
@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.