Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CACRadicalGrace 1/ Someone needs to say it: we have made of Jesus an idol. This hocus-pocus of false shepherds, our cartoon caricature of the Incarnation (“a sort of constant triumphal story” as @stewartdantec names it) effectively banishes the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2021

@stewartdantec "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles A common, universal, inter-spiritual fundamental, as it happens: anyone faithful to truth, never interposes other objects - the idolatry of a prophet, savior, or worldview, say - between themselves and a living relationship with what is most Real.Quoted by@SophiaCycles A common, universal, inter-spiritual fundamental, as it happens: anyone faithful to truth, never interposes other objects - the idolatry of a prophet, savior, or worldview, say - between themselves and a living relationship with what is most Real.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @antoniogm The Jewish charge that the messiah cannot have come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent in this regard, and more so given the dissonance of Xian triumphalism, identifying the church with the kingdom of God. The Real Meme, meanwhile, a background process.Quoted by@antoniogm The Jewish charge that the messiah cannot have come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent in this regard, and more so given the dissonance of Xian triumphalism, identifying the church with the kingdom of God. The Real Meme, meanwhile, a background process.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @MassimoFaggioli The pharisaical plague? In truth, a universal, global, religious phenomenon, propelling a planetary return to fundamentals: “What we have to learn is not that the church "has" a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church." - Juergen MoltmannQuoted by@MassimoFaggioli The pharisaical plague? In truth, a universal, global, religious phenomenon, propelling a planetary return to fundamentals: “What we have to learn is not that the church "has" a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church." - Juergen Moltmann