@jbralston 2/ Perhaps the interruptive event of a prophet turns upon their embodiment of transcendent political genius - their very life, a concrete locus through which God enters history; an act of love from beyond, grounding a breakthrough into a unifying, inclusive perception of reality.
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The problem is not principally one of cognitive inadequacy faced with incomparable hugeness, but of a pattern of desire unaware of its own hostility. Anyone who helps me better to understand God whose loving communication with me is a certain breaking through my own structural hostility to God, whose befriending of me starts with me as his enemy, and anyone who helps my Church live out this discovery of a completely unknown love which traverses our hostility, is my friend. James Alison
@CTMathewes @nils_gilman Qu’ran 2:136 “Say: We believe in God and that which was revealed unto us, and unto Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received, & that which the Prophets received from their Lord. We make no distinctions between any of them.”