My theological prioritizes a view that is accountable to the realities of the present. I've heard and read lots of theologies that are either focus on the future of heaven, or on restoring the world to a lost Edemic perfection of the past.
My refusal to focus primarily on either Eden or heaven can easily get some surface level critiques. Such a focus on present reality can seem secular and suspicious of religious imagination. Lack of imagination & creativity is another critique. And with that, a refusal to imagine a perfect past or future could be perceived as me not really being radical. (How do you critique the status quo if you aren't focusing on utopian possibilities?)
How am I going to respond to these critiques? Before or after they are actually made?
I have some ideas, but nothing of depth.
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