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RT @nick_routledge: @MacrinaMagazine 2/ I’m wondering if the tension of contradiction, paradox, and difference are essential to birthing a novel capacity for love, reconciliation, peace. In the gap, a holy mystery of a greater, epiphenomenal, assimilative space where God enters us, where Love is ultimately invoked.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 13 Dec 2021

@jbralston @SST_Theology 4/ Ultimately, perhaps religious differences exist _precisely_ so that we may transcend them or, rather, they provide planetary culture with a critical bridge, a ‘greater assimilative space’ for the transcendent breaking-in of eternity into history. Diversity, our very salvation.

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Quoted by@noonessleep 2/ Then there’s the divine wherefores, I suppose. Diversity literally creates space for transcendence itself to enter us and history. Rumi, by no means alone, in insisting that “the secret of Allah is found between the opposites.”Quoted by@SophiaCycles I think we can go further. In a very real sense it represents a dynamic encounter with a more-than-human realm directing us beyond the limits of our understanding, love and relatedness. Life _wants_ to transform us. ?s=20Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM I wonder if perhaps we might emphasize the ‘_dynamic_ principle of three’, more fully - the holiness of ‘originating’, as distinct from ‘original’, love. The participatory mystery, magic and grace of co-creative love.