@Sophiologist_ Severance Day. As for the flip side of a Reckoning? Folk need more than a dialectics of negation depicting the ontological tempest, forced or chosen, of an ending. The best is yet to come, after all. Nouwen: "How can I announce the good news of reconciliation unless I am that?"
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Excerpt of two tweets from a thread: Nick_routledge 11/ A vision appropriate to our age doesn't emphasize disarray and calamity. Amidst the confusion, constriction, violence and chaos, it powerfully claims and conveys the sense of a positive simultaneity coming into view - the promise and advent of a new, truly transformed world. Nick_routledge 12/ Some call it 'Good News.' Here's the Californian, Gary Snyder: "This is a revolution not of guns but of consciousness, won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, ecstasies and eschatologies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side."
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: A second Advent message? What we are now encountering is not the End of the World, but that confusing historical moment of evolutionary proportions when the way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Michael Meade: “Welcome to the end of the world as we knew it.” Quote Tweet Perhaps let what we know of the character and will of Jesus as revealed in Scripture reshape our images of the the Parousia Event? “Only when the apocalyptic expectation of judgment is completely Christianized does it lose its terror and become a liberating hope.” - Moltmann
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Copy of Tweet and Quote Tweet: Nick_routledge and 2 others 1/ Across the world, this long-anticipated, trans-cultural shift from world economy to ecumene - the birth not of a ‘united nation-states’ nor a world church or religion, but a ‘planetary ecology of symbiotic consciousness’ - is described an ‘inter-spiritual' emergent property. Quote Tweet Nick_routledge Given that planetary Awakening is by no means a singularly Xian, White or Occidental affair, we should hardly be surprised by the need for and effect of liberatory gnosis & support issuing and extending from far beyond the borderlands of Hartmann’s ‘westering of spirit’, eh?
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Copy of Tweet and Quote Tweet: Nick_routledge end/ "What we have to learn is not that the church 'has' a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church. The Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is creation of a new world. 'The best is yet to come'." - Moltmann Image, reading: “Man-made history is not history's only dimension. History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed. Justice is not an ancient custom, a human convention, but a transcendent demand. Its validity is not only universal, but also eternal.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel "God is finally and fully on the side of justice and truth. History does have a direction, meaning, and purpose. God is more fundamental than evil. Resurrection will have the final word, which is the very promise of the Jesus event. The eternal wind of the Spirit is with us." - Richard Rohr Quote tweet:
Never mind global prophetology, here’s our own Wallace Stevens proposing an Exeunt Omnes for almost all our old institutions and epistemologies: Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex, Rex and principium, exit the whole Shebang, Exeunt omnes... sapport.scribble.com/avalon/gotsnotpart2.htm /end
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