@BrianZahnd Alyosha Karamazov: “We are all responsible for everyone else - but I am more responsible than all the others.’’ Where Jeremiah was appointed “a prophet to the nations”, who, these days, is projecting prophetic radicalism upon a universal, trans-cultural, world-historical plane?
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Copy of thread here: Thread 1/ #WalterBrueggemann's 'The Practice of Prophetic Imagination’: “Prophetic preaching does not put people in crisis. Rather it names and makes palpable the crisis already pulsing among us...” “We are, for the most part, double-minded. There is hidden deep within most of us, I suspect, a profound tension between these narratives, knowing better than to trust the dominant narrative but having a huge stake in its being true, wanting the gospel narrative to be true...” “but reluctant to speak another language about the world other than the one in which we are palpably invested. It is the hard work of prophetic preaching, I propose, to make that tension explicit, available & visible, in order to permit informed, knowing choices.” - Brueggemann
@ShaneClaiborne end/ As such, in eschatologically-inclusive Islamo-Judeo-Christian terms, the Palestinian Event defines a cosmic threshold severing truth from falsehood, wheat from tares, and the new world creation from an Extinction Tyranny’s ‘final crisis.’ So shall evil be destroyed.
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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: Our prophets universally Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @UssamaMakdisi Our prophets universally depict this momentous revelation of the monstrous, wholesale moral destitution of our primary, international 'superpowers', as the rending of a well-wrought veil of deceit, a historical bifurcation point defining a providential, planetary dividing line. t.co/d7nQzH0V2E
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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: Folks might also Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @mehdirhasan Folks might also not be aware the Cycle of Unveiling or 'dawr al-kashf' of the Shi'ite Hidden Imam or 'qāʾim', correlates precisely with Judeo-Christian interpretation of the 'apocalypsis' or unveiling of 'the sunburst of the messianic'. And why ever would it not? t.co/WfT9pUEVol
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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: An astute anticipated Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @medialens An astute, anticipated distinction. The original meaning of ‘apocalypsis’? Unveiling. A 'Day' or 'Hour' of vision, decision and liberating experience in which legacy forms of authority, credibility, legitimacy and agency are espistemically demolished by the force of truth itself. t.co/s3GVTcKZ2N
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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: To see is Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.
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