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@NavdanyaInt @drvandanashiva 'The localization of our economies.' Now there's a turn of phrase doing a great deal of work, precisely describing, as it does, the motivating principle and incarnational path of planetary prophetology: the advent of a functional alternative to power politics, come to ground.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 10 Mar 2022

@CACRadicalGrace @dianabutlerbass 2/ A prophetic question, then. Why was Jesus murdered? Brueggemann: “Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And the Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.”

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Quoted by@tradistae Surprise, surprise, this pivotal personal and cultural locus of a functional Christology is also a universal, trans-dispensational claim of planetary prophetology. So then: @WaltBrueggemann: "Love of God comes as love of neighbor with an immediate, concrete, economic dimension.”