RT @nick_routledge: @PageauJonathan A fine contribution, even as Josh's assertion that "the Green Man is a Christian/Judaic–derived motif" betrays a prejudice, likely unwitting, as yet clearly unaware of the significance of an essentially universalist, prophetic prototype with immediate, profound, global relevance.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with Waverly Fitzgerald quotation split across 3–5 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 The green / 2 who / 3 Anglo / 4 Waverly / 5 Christian / end Other Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: 1/ The green prophetic prototype is an ancient one. The core, transcultural 'transmitter', combining several Quranic, Biblical and ancient mythical heroes, is reckoned to be Khezr, the 'Islamic' prototype of Elijah, the prophetic Green Man of Islam...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The answer which undoes Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PeterDFleetwood @BremenBod @ar @ArchbishopMark @BeaulieuSchool @Storystudiouk @philmhitchen The answer which undoes the question? 'The Return of the Gardener King of the New Creation' is contemporary, US evangelical theological vernacular. [See Douglas Green in 'When the Gardener Returns: An Ecological Perspective on Adam's Dominion'.] Earth Inheritance is peaceful. t.co/UCT2qpft9f
Open original document@BrianZahnd 2/ Seems to me a key bridge involves embracing the imamite third side of the vital triangle. The tripartite prototype who fits the bill is Elijah (or Khezr as he’s known in Islam) who represents divine revelation of the mystery and promise of reconciliation. Divinity spreading.
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