@profntwright 5/ That restraint assumes we are always in ordinary time, that no page of history yet merits a God's-eye reading—except, as Wright notes, as a "perhaps." But the claim under dispute, in Wright's own terms of restraint, isn't urgency but disclosure: apocalypse, not apocalypticism.
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Copy of tweet here: Which begs the question: if the truth can't or won't be lived by those who claim it, what kind of truth is it at all? Unmasking begins with God's household, shattering all idol-claims wrapped around the messianic event. The Paraclete universalizes this unveiling in history.
1/2 A world narrative isn't myth imposed on raw existence. It is the form by which reality’s direction becomes participable, and unmasks its counterfeits as imposition. The Messianic? The moment where direction presses through abstraction as summons, judgment, and form of life.
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