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  An Iconoclast’s Poietic Apocatastasis Literary Merit and Metaphysical Fracture Riding the Eschaton Douglas Blake Olds March 30, 2026 Click title to be taken to the Google Doc

 ( Sermon for Palm Sunday 2026:) From Chronologies of Disjunct Appearance in Separated Space to Walking with the Continuing Presence of Opened Eternal Time-Place Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds, (PC[USA] Ret.)   Core Texts: Psalm 118:19–29; John 12:12–19; Ezekiel, esp. chs. 37–47 with support from Leviticus 23:40; Matthew 21; Zechariah 4- 9; Luke 21; 2 Thessalonians 2; Isaiah 34; Hebrews 5:13-14; Deut. 6:4-9; Matt. 22:32;37 Palm Sunday arrives this year with a crisis of interpretation because it is a crisis of time. Palm Sunday is not first a pageant we make for children, a scene-patter of religious excitement for the festal onlookers, a sentimental threshold before the Passion bound up with the zodiac’s procession of start. To interpret Palm Sunday rightly, we must begin earlier than Jerusalem, earlier than the waving of branches--to begin where Scripture often begins when God is about to reorder history: with the disturbance of the heavens. Reports since Thanksgiv...

Book Scaffold: Intro, Outline, and linked chapters with w orking titl e--   Recovering Metaphysical Unity:  Conation, Time, and Christopoietic Repair After Idolatry's Terminal Calamity Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds (ret.) May 13, 2026 [updated through September 2026]  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. 2nd Commandment violation admitted b...