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Podcast Host (0:00)
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Bob (0:46)
to break a new path in the new world that is ours. Long enough we have been skeptics with regard to ourselves and doubted whether indeed the political Messiah had come. But he has come in us if we would but give utterance to his promptings.
Justin Holcomb (1:05)
Yeah, this is really interesting because as you're saying, reading those quotes, Mike Cotton Mather and others and their engagement, and they're leaning into this triumphalist idea of what America was. There's another group of people because this is a very perspectival reading of what the Christian faith was doing, because there's a lot of African Americans who are Christians at the time who are really looking into a more already not yet reality, asking God to intervene into the very sort of sufferings that they were going through. And so it's interesting to hear that sort of telling of the theological narrative in contrast with what was going on simultaneously.
Bob (1:45)
That's why we get the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Onward Christian Soldiers written during this, this period by the victors. And why we have the Negro Spirituals written by the sufferers,
Podcast Host (2:18)
Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church. This is White Horse Zinn, a weekly roundtable discussion discussion about theology and culture.
Bob (2:39)
Eschatology, or how things turn out in the end, has always been a hot potato topic. But a century ago, arguments over eschatology didn't just fill classroom lectures and YouTube comments, but really shaped the whole culture, the whole American culture. Significantly, how did the mood shift from post millennialism to premillennialism actually shape the mood of our culture, the mood of American society, as the division between liberal and conservative became clearer. Today on the White Horse Inn, we're going to revisit a moment in history when competing visions of the end times carried sweeping cultural consequences. And how those eschatological temperaments shaped the church's engagement with modernity. And why both optimism and pessimism untethered from the Church's Ordinary means of grace can distort our understanding of the kingdom of God. And I'm here with my friends Walter Strickland, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and I'm Mike Horton. Brothers, first of all, can someone define postmillennialism?
