This eschatological posture is characterized by a kind of holy impatience. On the one hand, we pray and labor for a world that looks more like the just, flourishing kingdom we long for. The “waiting” of Christian eschatology is not the same as what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his “I Have a Dream” speech, called “the tranquilizing drug of gradualism,” which used waiting as a code for enshrining the status quo.29 On the other hand, even our properly prophetic desire and hunger must avoid becoming the hubris of human amelioration projects, as if we could socially engineer our way out of the
...more
