@Plough In Christ, the communion of saints names a porous veil—eternity not ahead of us after time, nor beyond history, but within it. Not time + eternity bolted, but time taken up into eternity’s intensity: another register of reality. Chronos gathered into kairos. History transfigured.
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Tweet: Curious to what degree you perceive concrete reality as the covenantal realm in which the irruption of a 'new temporality' comes to ground - the interruptive mercy of a messianic ontology yoking the architecture of redemptive time to wholesale, planetary political transformation? end/ ...where Agamben describes “a breakthrough into, not out of, concrete history”; Keller, "a temporality that cannot be controlled and corralled by any institution"; and Moltmann, "neither the future of time, nor timeless eternity...the transcendent breaking-in of eternity". Quote tweet: 1/ Eternity, elsewhere? Apart from now, here? The fullness of time in a moment is an essentially messianic recognition and, with it, concrete reality as the covenantal realm in which redemptive time comes to ground. “Time,” William Blake observes, “is the mercy of eternity.” 2/ “When Jesus proclaims that the kingdom of God is 'at hand', he is not looking into the future in a temporal sense; he is looking into the heaven of the present. The kingdom does not 'come' out of the future into the present. It comes from heaven to earth..." #juergenmoltmann Painting of cross with calligraphy: One Heaven. One Earth. One Now. The messianic interpretation of the experience of the moment that ends & gathers up time is 'the redemption of the future' from the power of history. The eschaton, neither the future of time, nor timeless eternity, is God's coming and arrival. - Moltmann
Open original document@johnrobb 3/5 The eschaton is not ornament but ontology. It is the form by which eternity breaches narration, the irruption of the age-to-come into the syntax of the present. History, once veiled, now becomes the veil torn open—eterrnity not above time but folded into story-space.
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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: 2/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1962245876392538315 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM 2/ This, the texture of eschatological fulfillment breaking into ordinary time—not the end of history but its deepening. The convergence of all things in love occurring not beyond time but within it—a present grammar of becoming, here and now. t.co/STMsXg7zsO
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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: 26/ Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: @nick_routledge· 26/ The messiah is no longer a singular redeemer, neither person nor abstraction, but event-pattern, the space cleared and inhabited by neighborly risk, sacred laughter, and enduring justice. An operative modality whereby the messianic appears not as a climax but as a current. Quote tweet: 9/ Larre speaks of life as an art of marrying context to the flow of reality. Like a seasoned sailor working with wind and wave, we too can learn to locate grace in velocity—not despite it. This is the New Incarnational Horizon: not theology as analysis but as lived attunement.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge referring to Larre Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 9/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1940519988777177368 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ThinkingFaith 9/ Larre speaks of life as an art of marrying context to the flow of reality. Like a seasoned sailor working with wind and wave, we too can learn to locate grace in velocity—not despite it. This is the New Incarnational Horizon: not theology as analysis but as lived attunement.
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