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@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.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Aug 2021

@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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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jbralston end/ 1 Cor. 1:18-25 “Where is the wise person? The teacher of the law? The philosopher of this age?” Rulers all, of the reality-principle, the power-principle. Keepers of the prison. How, then, to _actualize_ peace in the thick of an essential cultural complicity with violence?Quoted by@jbralston end/ 1 Cor. 1:18-25 “Where is the wise person? The teacher of the law? The philosopher of this age?” Rulers all, of the reality-principle, the power-principle. Keepers of the prison. How, then, to _actualize_ peace in the thick of an essential cultural complicity with violence?