@jbralston @uoedivinity @CMSN_Edi @UniteThePoor end/ My question, then. What if we’re missing something? What if Islam and Christianity, together, aren’t enough? What if the Final Word amounts to a speech act owing its transcendent character precisely to its assimilative, *planetary* reconciliatory promise and power?
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Copy of tweet thread: 1/ Yes, even as our tendency to conflate the network's narrative edgeline with 'The State of the World', amounts to a category fallacy of cosmic proportions - as if the totality of planetary history and reality amounts to a downstream, behind-the-times, lesser subset, somewhere. Image of tweet: @davidrieff and @nils_gilman David, hi. Surprised to stumble upon a fundamentally secular community of interest and vernacular addressing "the political and temporal dynamism of eschatology" as it relates to "the possibility of a messianic Politics to Come." Nils' "radical philosophical event" comes to mind. QT 5/ In eschatological terms, an extinction tyranny of materialist and religious fetishism urges a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment. Time, then, for a fresh start transcending the co-evolutionary limits of the world's secular and religious imaginaries. Snyder quote repeated in next image
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Screenshot of the foot of the home page of the Seed Ambassadors website, 2007: concluding with the words of Gary Snyder, American poet and pillar of the reinhabitory foodshed movement, translated into Arabic: "It is best to think of this as a revolution, not of guns, but of consciousness, which will be won by seizing the key myths, archetypes, eschatologies, and ecstasies so that life won't seem worth living unless one is on the transforming energy's side." - Gary Snyder
@jbralston @uoedivinity @RimSarah @josh_good_ 1/Wonderful, thank you. I wonder if the ultimacy of an inclusive eschatology (Adorno's, "Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption") holds an essential, evolutionary key to bridging the reconciliatory limits still defining both esoteric and exoteric promise.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 1/ An inclusive eschatology? "A new opennness or sympathy comes into play when the encounter between different faiths and spiritualities is set within a horizon of hope and its expectation of an ultimate communion of eternal life." ~ Anthony Kelly