@jbralston Whatever its animating drive, that pivotal lack of humility is precisely what Heschel reckoned with in his nonsense-ending averral that "an eschatological event will be necessary to silence the arrogance of man." Ultimately, an inclusive eschatology serves up a democratic claim.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge; separate Barber, Heschel and Thurman quotations in deeper posts Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Ultimately the Hour / The poor / masses Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: Ultimately, the Hour isn't a promise to comparative theologians such as ourselves, but to the world's poor - of the revelation and liberation of a realm and reign of truth transcending all fictions and polemics sustaining secular, as much as religious, tyranny and division. Copy of tweet and quote tweet: @nick_routledge #WorldDayofthePoor “The poor are all those who have to endure acts of violence and acts of injustice without being able to defend themselves.” @RevDrBarber “Who shall prevent the epidemic of injustice that no Court of Justice is capable of stopping?” #AJHeschel @UniteThePoor Quote Tweet Nick Routledge @nick_routledge "The masses of people live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?" - #HowardThurman @UniteThePoor
Open original document@jbralston @uoedivinity @RimSarah @josh_good_ 2/ The 'status quo' of a totalizing, global, religio-political control-complex with no effective interest in reconciliatory reformation, implicitly requires rejecting co-evolutionary consciousness. The applied revelation of a planetary prophetology simply end-runs the power play.
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