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The great missional mandate to the church stems from this wondrous reality that God desires to choose “the weak and the foolish” to do the transformative work in the world that is never done by the wise and the powerful. A powerful, double resonance in this with Moltmann's emphatically US-centric take on "the messianic myth of the redeemer nation of the End-time," and also of messianic hope as "never the hope of the victors and the rulers [but] always the hope of the defeated & the ground down." "In truth American nationalism is constituted by many peoples from many places of origin with all kinds of ethnic and national rootage. We are indeed, historically and practically, a mixed company clustered as a unity by a summons to “a more perfect union” that overrides and transcends all of our cherished particularities.” - Walter Brueggemann Subtweet thread: "Another kind of political fulfillment of the millenarian hope is the idea of the nation whose destiny, according to God’s salvific plan, is the redemption of the world. What has to be taken seriously is the USA’s strange millenarian mythology because it has a genuine basis." 2/ What does #JuergenMoltmann mean? "The country is settled by a people drawn from all nations, and is hence the unique modern experiment in the universal representation of humanity.” 3/10 “American democracy remains incomplete as long as the whole world has not been won for democracy. The United States will remain historically unfinished and imperfect until this political experiment that humanity is making with itself succeeds or fails.” 4/10 “The American experiment is in fact the political and social experiment of modernity. That makes this political experiment a messianic experiment.” The birth, in other words, of #PlanetarySpring and the #ThirdReconstruction movement in America, are one. 5/