@normonics @gracie88888 @RizomaSchool By 2020, fully two-thirds of Christians were in the global south. Perhaps, substantially, the co-evolutionary (that is, 'incarnational') sacramentality of the homecoming-to-Jesus train is pointed in a different direction at a different platform than the Nordic church presumes?
@noonessleep Simply put? Every resurrection requires a home address. Indeed, we only come home to concrete reality in so far as we and the world complete one another - the simultaneity of de Chardin's spiritualization of the material and materialization of the spiritual. Here, Moltmann:
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Edited down by 640 characters... If this potency is inherent in the earth, if there is a hidden presence ofChrist in the earth of this kind, then in looking for the coming of Christ in glory our gaze cannot be directed merely to heaven, as is generally thought And then Christoph Blumhardt could be right: 'Nature is the womb of God. Out of the earth God will come to meet us again....we must arrive at harmony between human beings and nature. Then both will be content. And that will be the solution for the social question. It follows from these eschatological ideas that the earth is not dead matter, and not expendable material...lf the divine Redeemer is himself present in this earth in hidden form, then the earth becomes the bearer or vehicle of his and our future. But in that case there is no fellowship with Christ without fellowship with the earth. Love for Christ and hope for him embrace love and hope for the earth.