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1/3 Where Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asks, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!", Ernst Bloch identified the functional atheism of dominative Christian culture’s denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the living God among us, right here, right now.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 29 Nov 2021

@nickripatrazone @poetinbabylon Where Xian theological sanction has effectively decried messianology as "the hobby of religious cranks" (Moltmann), perhaps it’s time to adventitiously ask, what does realized Christology mean, if not the Second Advent? Fingers and toes? Or the kingdom of peace in a new creation?

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Quoted byImmanuel isn’t a doctrine about where God is. It’s the recovery of reality itself—not more belief, but the restoration of the real—until “God as Reality” ceases to be a topic and becomes encounter: the nearest actuality, the active “is,” reality’s very reality, the Living God.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 2/ We resurrect as transmutation, the simultaneous, dynamic conjunction of the Divine One and the affirmation of the moving constraint of our mortality. “It is both a realm in itself and the means by which this realm makes itself known." - Cynthia Bourgeault.