tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post115312274133517286..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: A brick flung at a gramophonebyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1153185958318366492006-07-18T02:25:00.000+01:002006-07-18T02:25:00.000+01:00Drew, it is because of the continuity between this...Drew, it is because of the continuity between this creation and the next (despite some radical discontinuity) that hoping for a new creation is also an affirmation of the world now. Not by any means an uncritical acceptance of all that is, indeed, largely the opposite. Hope for the resurrection of the dead and the liberation of creation reveals the importance and value of this body and this worldbyron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1153178385866372722006-07-18T00:19:00.000+01:002006-07-18T00:19:00.000+01:00But how then do we act? Are we to wring our hands ...But how then do we act? Are we to wring our hands helplessly? <BR/><BR/>To quote that Moltman piece:<BR/><I>The person who presses forward to the end of life misses life itself. </I><BR/><BR/>So, what hope acts to affirm life now, but still rightly holds on to the abiding hope of a new creation?Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03148452877425621293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-1153126860122881022006-07-17T10:01:00.000+01:002006-07-17T10:01:00.000+01:00Thinking about this quote again and the photo abov...Thinking about this quote again and the photo above, I wonder that the statue provides false hope in the face of Christian eschatology. In some sense, Lewis' quote highlights that there may be no hope for the overall improvement of the world - no hope for the end of violence and warfare and killing; just a continuation of the current turmoil of the world until it ends with a bang and those in Mister Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08825856773085135599noreply@blogger.com