Jiang's description of how Christian Zionists imagined America in the historical chain from England to American apocalyptic politics.
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Jiang's description of how Christian Zionists imagined America in the historical chain from England to American apocalyptic politics.
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The Catholic Church understood as the city of God on earth, enabling humanity to step out of ordinary history into spiritual devotion.
Jiang argues that Newton's influence helped promote Christian Zionism in England, from which believers later went to America imagining America as the new Jerusalem.
The Catholic Church becomes the city of God, the new Jerusalem, and the basis of the Holy Roman Empire as a project to create heaven on earth.
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"...Zionists, they will go to America believing that America is the new Jerusalem. And then what will happen later on is these Zionists, Christian..."
"...emperors are trying to be the ultimate emperor of humanity. But Jerusalem means out of history. You are taking yourself out of human affairs..."
"In other words Charlemagne and Leo worked together to create the Holy Roman Empire in order to achieve Augustine's vision of heaven on earth...."
"...to build their own theocracy what they believe to be the New Jerusalem or paradise on earth heaven on earth now one core belief..."
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Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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