TGR just carried the last post in my series, “Let’s Keep Bickering about Eschatology”:

When we remember that Jesus’ return will renew the earth and consummate God’s good work that has been ongoing in creation since the beginning, we will seek to build moral consensus with our neighbors in order to carry on the good work now.

But when we remember that Jesus’ return will bring a catastrophic confrontation and judgment upon a fallen and sinful world – and that this traumatic revolution of affairs is not supposed to begin until Jesus returns – we will accept differences with grace and strive to cope with pluralism through compromise, without demanding a social unity only Jesus’ return can bring.

See also the penultimate post, which I neglected to link here at the time:

Eschatological continuity emphasizes fighting for justice, bearing prophetic witness against the darkness of the world, and exercising kingly and queenly authority in rooting it out from our own domains of responsibility. Eschatological discontinuity emphasizes moderating our ambitions to see justice and mercy vindicated, and waiting patiently for the Lord’s judgment upon the overwhelming majority of evil that we are either not authorized or not able to remove ourselves.

I suppose in a series about eschatology, the last post is pretty significant. Let me know what you think!