I have several issues with this. The first is that the church's narrative is contradictory but largely fatalistic. The biblical narrative is circular, beginning with utopia, then decline followed by divine intervention and ultimately destruction. In the end time is condensed. The church tends towards eschatology during time of crisis. In fact Revelation was written, not primarily as a portent of things to come but as an explanation of why things were happening as they were.

Looking at Christianity from a historical perspective, Jesus' illustrations of the coming age were drawn from a Jewish crisis of identity having much to do with the impact of the Greek and Roman empires. Christianity could not have flourshed 200 years either side of when it happened.

The most prevalent Christian theology is no more than 300 years old and it seems to me that we have already entered into a phase where the notion of progress is increasingly being viewed wth suspicion. The ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples is getting more and more traction.