Today’s thread explores how Christian hope is simultaneously rooted in history, lived in the vanishing present, and anchored in a real place prepared for future glory: Irenaeus shows prophecy fulfilled in Christ’s two advents and the Church’s life of peace, Augustine probes the razor‑thin instant we call “now” and discovers that past and future live only in God’s mind, while Aquinas argues that Eden was a tangible eastern garden whose lingering reality prefigures the final beatitude promised to redeemed humanity (Zechariah 9:9; Psalm 50:3; Romans 12:17‑21; Genesis 2:8).
Readings: Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 4, Chapter 33
Augustine, The Confessions, Book 11, Chapters 16–17 (Sections 21–22)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1, Question 102, Article 1
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