@trippfuller 2/ Scholem, too, was no beer pong lightweight. The first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he founded the modern academic study of Kabbalah. Benjamin's lifelong friend and collaborator, his "The Messianic Idea in Judaism" also shapes The Shift.
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Shortened copy of tweet here: The Angel of History flew with its own wings. Shortly before his doomed flight, Benjamin entrusted the Klee print - his most treasured possession, he claimed - to Georges Bataille. Then, it found its way to Theodor Adorno and, later, to Benjamin's dear friend, Gershom Scholem. "For the rebirth of messianic thinking out of the catastrophe of Christian humanism in WWI, we are indebted to #martinbuber, #ernstbloch; #franzrosenweig, #walterbenjamin; #theodoradorno, #gershomscholem; #margaretesusman, and after WWII... #karllowith; #jacobtaubes." 1/ "Out of the ruins of historical rationality they rescued hope as a theological category. Without their messianic thinking, eschatology today is literally unthinkable." - The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism, 'The Coming of God', Christian Eschatology. #juergenmoltmann 2/2 Call it the Planetary Christ laying the smack down but…
@moltmannjuergen Similarly, Jewish mysticism avers that messianism, the sanctification of the world in history, has been with us as a gradual process extending back to Creation. Moltmann: ' "Messianism is the idea which Israel gave the world,” affirmed Gershom Scholem.’ facebook.com/nick.routledge.39/posts/2401318326618810
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