They have perhaps, however, taken too limited a view of historical possibility. (religion-online.org)
When society began to treat justice as a simple historical possibility, as many American Protestants did during the Social Gospel era, the prophetic task of the next generation of «Christian realists» was to insist that there are things that society can not do, goals that must remain «impossible possibilities.» (religion-online.org)
In short, «utopia» and «oblivion» are symbols defining the absolute limits of historical possibility for this given epoch. (religion-online.org)