Quotes from Jurgen Moltmann

on the other hand, the Constantinian imperial churches condemned early Christian millenarianism only because they saw themselves in the Christian imperium as `the holy rule' of Christ's Thousand Years' empire. So every future hope for a different, alternative kingdom of Christ was feared and condemned as heresy.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.