Saturday, Advent Three - God’s Dream

Written By Brian Suntken

“The doctrine of the Second Coming is deeply uncongenial to the whole evolutionary or developmental character of modern thought. We have been taught to think of the world as something that grows slowly towards perfection, something that “progresses” or “evolves”. Christian Apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell (which would be more tolerable to our habits or thoughts) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rundown on the play – “Halt!”

CS Lewis, The World's Last Night and Other Essays, “The World's Last Night” (1952), paragraph 12, pages 100-101.

Brian Suntken

It’s my sixtieth trip around the sun this year. I share some wisdom, some photography, some poetry and prayers for the journey ahead.

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