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2/ Planet-wide, it’s no mistake that cornerstone movements such as @UniteThePoor tend to be faith-based and fusional. Their course, hardly naive. As Heschel clarifies, man-made history is not history’s only dimension: the process and judgment of God transcend the human dimension.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 17 May 2021

#AbrahamJoshuaJHeschel: Justice is not an ancient custom, a human convention, but a transcendent demand. Justice is as much a necessity as breathing is, and a constant occupation. The survival of the world is itself a requirement of justice. 13/

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @CACRadicalGrace @brianmclaren Ultimately, indivisibly, the “transcendent demand for justice” (Heschel) must “recognize the absolute evils of biocide and geocide” (Berry), too. The Other of the more-than-human-world, our planet, is not a divine aside, but our Mother. The Earth is not a trinitarian subsidiary.Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @brianmclaren Ultimately, indivisibly, the “transcendent demand for justice” (Heschel) must “recognize the absolute evils of biocide and geocide” (Berry), too. The Other of the more-than-human-world, our planet, is not a divine aside, but our Mother. The Earth is not a trinitarian subsidiary.