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@moltmannjuergen “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsn

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Jul 2023

5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message."

Image of abstract rose and cross either side of text, "EQUALLY HER BEAUTY FLOWS INTO A SAVIOR OR A ROSE" And quote tweet: "…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life." #IvanIllich Art, Photoshop, FNL website, 2001. @unitethepoor #poorpeoplescampaign
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Image of abstract rose and cross either side of text, "EQUALLY HER BEAUTY FLOWS INTO A SAVIOR OR A ROSE" And quote tweet: "…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life." #IvanIllich Art, Photoshop, FNL website, 2001. @unitethepoor #poorpeoplescampaign

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis Know of Mark Stahlman, President of the Center for the Study of Digital Life? He guest-edited a special issue on McLuhan for the Catholic literary journal, Renascence: "I think we're now ready for the breakthrough that McLuhan lived his life waiting for." https://youtu.be/oPP1J37i2Bk?t=1022Quoted by@lukeburgis Know of Mark Stahlman, President of the Center for the Study of Digital Life? He guest-edited a special issue on McLuhan for the Catholic literary journal, Renascence: "I think we're now ready for the breakthrough that McLuhan lived his life waiting for." https://youtu.be/oPP1J37i2Bk?t=1022Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TaraAnnThieke Total lockdown, yes. Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth."Quoted by@TaraAnnThieke Total lockdown, yes. Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth."