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RT @nick_routledge: @RichardRohrOFM In reality, it didn't take long at all for 'the Church' to effectively forsake messianic ontology for a religious science of containment. No matter. The involvement of God in history isn't a concept: no religion or system can own the visible and carnal presence of the God-force.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 May 2022

@CarlMcColman The challenge, hardly new. The great majority of conscious folk I encounter regard us as irrelevant, toxic, and part of the problem rather than solution. Who can blame them when the Church itself has effectively banished the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality?

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Quoted by3/ "Eschatology, one may well say, is the air which Islam breathes.” In thought and everyday life, since its beginning, this most explicitly eschatological of world faiths and cultures fulfills a central role shaping and universalizing the planetary parousia now upon us.Quoted byend/ And where 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, Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asked, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!"