Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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2/ In hindsight, an analogous question might be, ‘What relationship does prophetology have to contemplation?’ Or, dependently, perhaps, ‘Why does the planetary landscape of ‘received’, which is to say ‘dominative’ religious culture, engage so few BIPOC ‘contemplatives'?’

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CACRadicalGrace @blackliturgist Contemplation without action? A fundamental repudiation of reciprocity itself. Existentially-speaking, a defective moral system. Heschel understood: "To do justice is what God demands of every man: it is the supreme commandment, and one that cannot be fulfilled vicariously."Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @blackliturgist Contemplation without action? A fundamental repudiation of reciprocity itself. Existentially-speaking, a defective moral system. Heschel understood: "To do justice is what God demands of every man: it is the supreme commandment, and one that cannot be fulfilled vicariously."