random question... is the christian concept of kingdom of heaven on earth roughly the same as the islamic concept of the global islamic state ruled by a true caliph?
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hmm.... the concept of a "holy roman empire" fits in there somewhere... "roman" scopes it to be european in a way "caliphate" does not, but both have connotations of theological manifest destiny, not just religious sanction
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One view is that this has more to do with the marriage of church and state post Edict if Milan than with “actual” (I know that’s loaded) Christian theology. Once Xianity went from minority sect to state sanctioned religion, imperialism of all kinds flooded in.
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Don't immanentize the eschaton, bro
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Conservative intellectual Eric Voegelin also the father of political science talks about FALSE GNOSIS as a critique to liberal intellectuals of the 60s
This is where Temptation to Immanetizie the Eschaton comes from.
To rely on demiurgical impulses to recreate the divine spark.
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