@AimeTim 4/ Yes, root and branch are in conjoined interplay in a single helix of presence. So then, if Creation and Incarnation ultimately exist as a dynamic Intelligence, how might a corporeal matrix of encounter and experience resurrect our world and us, in the same place and breath?
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Juergen Moltmann: If this potency is inherent in the earth, if there is a hidden presence of Christ in the earth of this kind, then in looking for the coming of Christ in glory our gaze cannot be directed merely to heaven, as is generally thought (“. . . from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead’). And then Christoph Blumhardt could be right: “Nature is the womb of God. Out of the earth God will come to meet us again. But as yet we have no fellowship with nature. We admire her, but often trample her underfoot, using her unreasonably. Consequently nature still confronts us with icy reserve, and feels that she is alien to us. But something different must come . . . we must arrive at harmony between human beings and nature. Then both will be content. And that will be the solution for the social question. Remainder of alt-text for this image is attached as alt-text to the following image.
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Abstract image of Cross with calligraphy, reading: One Heaven One Earth One Now Remainder of text from previous image: ...It follows from these eschatological ideas that the earth is not dead matter, and not expendable material - but neither is the earth the Mother Gaia who engenders and slays. This earth, with its world of the living, is the real and sensorily experienceable promise of the new earth, as truly as this earthly, mortal life here is an experienceable promise of the life that is eternal, immortal. If the divine Redeemer is himself present in this earth in hidden form, then the earth becomes the bearer or vehicle of his and our future. But in that case there is no fellowship with Christ without fellowship with the earth. Love for Christ and hope for him embrace love and hope for the earth. For an eschatology that is christologically grounded and ecologically responsibly with maintained, there is no better concept.
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Painting of Jesus the Prophet surrounded by green halo, with calligraphy reading, Green Christ
@CACRadicalGrace “We stand at the point...of entering more fully into our human garment, and of raising everything into a clearer more unified belonging.” - Ronald Beesley
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Only superficially, then, does ‘home-making’ refer to refining our external attachment to people, place and things, and the broad array of technes supporting the outer forms of settling in. Ultimately, homemaking amounts to accepting a profound invitation to explore the most vital coherence of our senses and thoughts in congruence with the embrace of Nature, striving for a depth where the form of our emerging growth is brought into rhythm with the concealed order of creation. It is, in other words, an invitation to friendship with our own essential nature. Such is the ground of primal affection mediated by Beauty. “The experience of the beautiful,” as Hans-Georg Gadamer describes it, “is the invocation of a potentially whole and holy order of things.”