Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

30 August 2021 at 17:47Reply to @ceisenstein

@ceisenstein 1/ Perhaps, in practical terms, it’s not sufficient to see and speak, prophetically. Black Elk: “A man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.” A correlative here, with Abrahamic eschatology...

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Dec 2020

@nils_gilman @RevDrBarber @UniteThePoor 6/12 #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel: “Neither words of persuasion nor threats of castigation will have any effect. Something greater than prophetic words, namely, an eschatological event, will be necessary to silence the arrogance of man.” @UniteThePoor

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Quoted by30 Aug 2021RT @nick_routledge: @RevDrBarber #WalterBrueggemann: “The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim.”Quoted by30 Aug 2021@RevDrBarber #WalterBrueggemann: “The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim.”