Do religious futurists endorse any millennial or utopian thought about the future?
No. What we do endorse is scholarship — and love — in the field of religion. We are against narrow “scientism,” and narrow apocalypticism. Religious futurists look for truth all over the world, wherever it is appearing. Through scholarship and service, we work to create better societies. But they realize that to achieve profoundly social, deeply valuable new truth [knowledge bearing on the evolution of society towards God] requires checks and balances. Rather than a naive utopianism, we strive for an enlightened hope and an educated will. We begin with ourselves as scholars and people of faith. We aim to form ourselves as deeply as possible in humble love, on the path of holiness, in conformity with divine revelation, in response to God’s intent to build better civilizations.
