Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@iyad_elbaghdadi 1/ Yes, a universal insight transcending borders, cultures, eras. And where our challenge is common and universal, so our prophets, from whichever cultures and times they have spoken, insist our salvation and liberation are ultimately planetary, too.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 May 2021

#AJHeschel: The hunger of the powerful knows no satiety. Power exalts itself & is incapable of yielding to any transcendent judgment; it ‘listens to no voice’ (Zeph.3:2). #Quran32: We never sent a warner to a community but the affluent say: ‘We reject what you were sent with.’ 8/

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Quoted by@ShaneClaiborne 2/ This is hardly an original or modern notion. Planetary prophetology always anticipated breaking with Abrahamic ethnocentrism, reprojecting prophetic radicalism on a universal, world-historical plane identified with a clear, planetary, political objective. (Qu’ran 2:136)