@johnmilbank3 Become the bridge over which we walk and the bridge becomes us - the co-evolutionary dynamism of homecoming to concrete reality as the covenantal realm in which redemptive time comes to ground. Pádraig Ó Tuama: "And the form of prayer, like the form of poetry, can be local, too."
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@Dan_Bowdoin James O'Dea: "Healing the wound of abstractions [Bly] is crucial to peacework.” What remains is to ground the Incarnation narrative the only place it can be done - in concrete experience of our partnered indivisibility with the God of Creation. Home is where we belong, after all.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: As Wallace Stevens wrote and as James Hillman would later be fond of quoting, “the way through the world is harder to find than the way beyond it.” Simply setting foot on the Earth might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained. Quote tweet: "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage.
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Copy of tweet: Home is not where you were born, Home is where all your attempts to escape cease. -Naguib Mahfouz Image of the verse in Arabic script.