Re: We have to go back, but not to square one

While I wouldn’t want to underestimate the impact the destruction of the Second Temple had on the Jewish people, we survived that destruction pretty well just as we survived the first. Jewish history as I look at it certainly didn’t eclipse at that point - it had great periods of flourishing to come, as well as further catastrophes, so I think that part of the diagram is deeply flawed. The other point I would make is that Christians are most certainly being persecuted in almost every country where they/we are present. So for a theology that makes sense in our present context,surely we need a global perspective of understanding how God is working presently in history, not a Western one? It may be that we don’t want to re-create Christendom, but that dialogue must happen globally, and we must live with the consequences of what unfolds as a worldwide body of Christ.