Process Note: Starting Over with Christian Zionist World Federation

Thank you, Adonai.

Blessings, World.

I am on retreat from current events and US-Israeli patriotism until Eastertide except when I sneak a peek at my news feeds for updates and pray for effective world political leadership from those entrusted by God and the people with noble terms of public service. Of course, if there is a situation that truly demands it, I will break my current events silence despite my Lenten commitment to restraint.

On the other hand, I fully hope to publish some thoughts between now and Eastertide on the subject of world federation. In addition to my other Lenten reading, Hashem is calling me to contemplate Mortimer Adler's 1944 volume How to Think About War and Peace. I also have on hand St. Thomas and the World State - the 1949 Aquinas Lecture by Robert Hutchins. Maybe I will agree with the formidable Adler-Aquinas-Hutchins trio, maybe I won't. The deeper I dig into this, the more likely I am to encounter the best arguments against world federation - including, in light of my recent encounter with Greg Boyd's compelling case in God at War - the possibility that world federation would be misused by a Satanically possessed elite if it not credibly in the hands of a Jewish Christian Messiah.

I don't know. It is still early days in my Boyd reading, and I am not entirely sold on his spirited attack against the Augustinian response to the problem of evil.

Is Boyd's view truer to the Torah? Maybe. This much I know: Adler wrote a book in defense of his belief in angels. He might therefore be the first to agree that Boyd's view warrants serious consideration in a Christian Zionist approach to the problem of world federation.