Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@davidrieff @nils_gilman Thank you. I'll follow the Eagleton lead. Messianology, a tough sell, of course, especially in theological circles, where it's effectively dismissed as but "the hobby of religious cranks." (Moltmann) By 'metaphysical', I presume you mean reality-based, unmediated, non-religious?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Jul 2022

@sssfCommunity @RichardRohrOFM 9/ Kabir, the Indian poet-saint sometimes referred to as ‘the Christ of the East’ mirrored Shankara's contemplative insight with a scathing dismissal of religious authority precisely echoing that of the Jesus Event: "Pandit, you’ve got it wrong. Your ideas are false.”

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim What first led me to Continental theology was a Christian dialectic of negation, the preposterous dearth of 'serious theology' relating to a messianic politics to come, where Moltmann and Baptist-Metz kept surfacing in my field of view as responsible to the reality of the Shoah.Quoted by@AimeTim What first led me to Continental theology was a Christian dialectic of negation, the preposterous dearth of 'serious theology' relating to a messianic politics to come, where Moltmann and Baptist-Metz kept surfacing in my field of view as responsible to the reality of the Shoah.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @MattNoahSmith In metaphysical schtick, the distinction between mediated experience (a spoken or written map of experience, say; a system or 'creed') and immediate experience 'alive', has totalizing implications. The former, it is said, concerns religion: the latter, the quest for reality.Quoted by@MattNoahSmith In metaphysical schtick, the distinction between mediated experience (a spoken or written map of experience, say; a system or 'creed') and immediate experience 'alive', has totalizing implications. The former, it is said, concerns religion: the latter, the quest for reality.