RT @nick_routledge: @joseph_gaglione @StuHennigan Böhme: “Paradise is locked inside Saturn.” Notable, the archetypal parallels of an 'upside down' agricultural deity-celebration, messianic vision (Acts 17:6; Matt. 20:16) and now, World Resurrection unshackled in the grounded concordance of 'eco-political' reality, actualized.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: 3/ Ultimately, everything is 'eco', politics included. 'World peace' occurs only *through* the human *and* more-than-human synthesis of a coherent local embrace. And how does the reconciliatory power and promise of subsidiarity port-scale as a coherent eco-cultural foundation? Jun 21, 2022 eplying to @nick_routledge @gracie88888 and 2 others 2/ Oh, and back in 2007, Lane County, OR, permaculturists and native ecology geeks, in an effort to identify and reconcile the substrative tensions underpinning such larger cultural worldviews, gathered the only place it can functionally occur - that is, grounded in the local.
@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
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