@jmrphy 'Looks'? Overlooked. Bailie: "..an act of official violence regarded as legally righteous by the political authorities and as a sacred duty by the religionists. This simple and obvious fact is the most overlooked aspect of the colossal historical phenomenon we call Christianity."
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The murder of Jesus, viewed as a sacred duty by the religios and legally righteous by the pols, reveals the perverse, foundational complicity between cultural status quo and the scapegoat function, declaring the absolute centrality of the position of the Victim. In the final analysis, denying the truth of the Victim has screened us from ‘apocalypsis’, the unveiling of a realm of perception and liberating experience in which the common lie of dominative materialist and religious denial is unmasked, and the Great Lover revealed. It has taken until now to realize the staggering anthropological and co-evolutionary significance of the Cross because the moral, intellectual, and epistemological effects of the Gospel revelation have of necessity developed gradually. Last words, from Rene Girard: “..beyond all that disfigures it in our eyes, the truth of the victim that we at last possess is the greatest, most fortunate event in the history of religion and the whole of humanity.” @unitethepoor
@AimeTim @UniteThePoor 3/ What *is* ‘poor peoples’ political theology’? For one, we’re clear that redemptive time is actualized in concrete reality, constituting a messianic reality of world emancipation freeing us from enslavement by supremacist political and religious fictions, polemics and powers.
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Copy of tweet thread beginning here: With: @moltmannjuergen· I believe that some people will have doubts here because in the future the liberation is not going to be ours; it will be other poeple who want to liberate themenselves – have to liberate themselves – from *us*. And ending with: 1/ #Breakfree the simultaneity. Adorno: “Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption.” And Moltmann: “The messianic interpretation of the experience of the moment that ends and gathers up time is 'the redemption of the future' from the power of history."
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Copy of two tweets: The radical upheaval of prevailing political, economic and social reality, presenting as a global movement to end poverty and injustice, led by the poor? The actualized reality of the Messianic promise. #poorpeoplescampaign Image: Lakota Victory Christ by Fr. John Giuliani. Image of Lakota Victory Christ, arms extended, palms raised. – @nick_routledge and @RichardRohrOFM The messianic era? Coming home to the transcendent fullness of empirical Earth-bound life, effectively completing a co-evolutionary circuit freeing us to a planetary realm of measureless, enfolded, promise and potential. A new world co-creation, in this realm of existence. Photo of Nick embracing Amber and Anochi . All smiles.