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@jbralston end/ 1 Cor. 1:18-25 “Where is the wise person? The teacher of the law? The philosopher of this age?” Rulers all, of the reality-principle, the power-principle. Keepers of the prison. How, then, to _actualize_ peace in the thick of an essential cultural complicity with violence?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Aug 2021

@RevDrBarber #WalterBrueggemann: “The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim.”

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Quoted by17/ No wonder such thresholders are so often taken as lunatics. In conditions of systemic untruth, a higher form of moral and spiritual lucidity resembles madness. Only the one written off as mad is free enough to act and speak with that level of unbound, transgressive liberty.