1/ @RichardRohrOFM "Almost two-third's of Jesus' teachings are directly or indirectly about forgiveness." Why? Did He realize forgiveness as the supernatural locus of a creative experience, in which the divided self returns the entire world, through us, to an essential wholeness?
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Art, with text fragment attached: "Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.” ― Hannah Arendt
@sssfCommunity The world-changing teleology of His second great precept: perfecting God in the perfection of loving Another. Gibran: “When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.” Bourgeault: "Salvation is measured by the capacity to love your neighbor as yourself."
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Tweets, copied. Apart from central, and more obviously theological, doctrines like the Trinity or the Incarnation, what contributed the most to convincing me of the truth of Christianity was the injunction to love one's enemies. It is perhaps the one aspect of Christian ethics which strikes... Sarugiz of Bokaj · me as unequivocally supernatural, and has contributed, perhaps more than any other ethical consideration, to my embrace of universalism. A Christianity in which this isn't absolutely central sometimes seems to me almost like another religion.