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@BandyXLee1 And in the face of such totalizing, cultural denial, “the prophetic voice does not put people in crisis. Rather it names and makes palpable the crisis already pulsing among us...with possibility for what has been, until now, unthinkable and unsayable.” - #Brueggemann

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 25 Jul 2021

@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace “but reluctant to speak another language about the world other than the one in which we are palpably invested. It is the hard work of prophetic preaching, I propose, to make that tension explicit, available & visible, in order to permit informed, knowing choices.” - Brueggemann

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Quoted by@faustroll "And what could make you conceive what that laying-bare of the truth will be?" - Surah al-Haqqah 69:3 ?s=20&t=XSHdjE29kDW4ZaFT1WuuOwQuoted by@nils_gilman And Brueggemann, essential.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CACRadicalGrace @dianabutlerbass 1/ The prophet is ‘dangerous’ because they represent an existential threat to a status quo of consensual delusion, to the very mechanism for maintaining cultural order and psychological stability, “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures,” as Girard put it.Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @dianabutlerbass 1/ The prophet is ‘dangerous’ because they represent an existential threat to a status quo of consensual delusion, to the very mechanism for maintaining cultural order and psychological stability, “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures,” as Girard put it.