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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Mar 2021

3/ "The Savior will not come to be judged again, but to judge those by whom he was judged. His first coming was to fulfill his plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not, they will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity." - Cyril of J.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @pretentiouscox Echoes of Milton: "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light." What is hell, after all? Nietzsche, interpreting: “In time of peace, the warlike person attacks himself.” First through Gethsemane, to Eden. Healing, through and beyond the death-waking. Here, Rumi:Quoted by@pretentiouscox Echoes of Milton: "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light." What is hell, after all? Nietzsche, interpreting: “In time of peace, the warlike person attacks himself.” First through Gethsemane, to Eden. Healing, through and beyond the death-waking. Here, Rumi:Quoted by@wilsonhartgrove The core jock lesson I took away? Win or lose, it’s how we play the game that truly counts - the high price of consciousness as @RichardRohrOFM describes keeping the field of life wide open to grace and to a future created by God for All, always, rather than just ourselves, now.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @nickripatrazone @poetinbabylon Where Xian theological sanction has effectively decried messianology as "the hobby of religious cranks" (Moltmann), perhaps it’s time to adventitiously ask, what does realized Christology mean, if not the Second Advent? Fingers and toes? Or the kingdom of peace in a new creation?Quoted by@nickripatrazone @poetinbabylon Where Xian theological sanction has effectively decried messianology as "the hobby of religious cranks" (Moltmann), perhaps it’s time to adventitiously ask, what does realized Christology mean, if not the Second Advent? Fingers and toes? Or the kingdom of peace in a new creation?Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @DavidKaib @TheStephenWood “The beginning in Jesus does not come without harsh ending, for that which is ending never ends graciously.” - Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic ImaginationQuoted by@DavidKaib @TheStephenWood “The beginning in Jesus does not come without harsh ending, for that which is ending never ends graciously.” - Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic ImaginationQuoted byBingo. “We need to see the mystery of incarnation in one ordinary concrete moment, and struggle with, fight, resist, and fall in love with it there.” @RichardRohrOFM