Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 Oct 2021

@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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Quoted by@jonmsweeney Or, as an interspiritual trope puts it, Enlightenment is something you 'catch'. After a sermon I found particularly dispiriting, recently - by a kindly, deeply sincere man - I asked a fellow congregant, "Why do you think it is that preachers insist that preaching is the Way?"