@Dan_Bowdoin Ilia Delio invites us to consider Christmas as a call to the messianic ontology of full incarnation: "If God has already come to us, what are we waiting for? If God has already become incarnate in Jesus what are we waiting for? And I think that’s a really interesting question..."
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Copy of tweet here: Indeed, I'd aver Schleiermacher's 'cultured despisers' of religion describes 'religious' as much as 'non-religious' dismissal of Reality as fully, supernaturally here. Incarnation, a participatory threshold defined by passing over from God-belief into God-experience itself, then? Aṭṭār Christians who somehow manage to reconcile their faith with the sort of complacent, sneering scientism one would normally expect of a strident atheist or secular humanist are very puzzling. I had in mind smug dismissals of notions of enchantment (or, in a Barfieldian register, original participation). There's something genuinely bizarre about being at once a Christian and someone who thinks a participatory ontology is woo woo.
@Plough @benjamindcrosby Eloquent, lucid, passionate, beautiful. And yet our conundrum remains. The institutional Church preserves its existence only by endlessly postponing the Second Advent it announces. A choice, then. Fatal decline or embracing the mission of the Living God's coming and arrival, now?
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Copy of tweet here: end/ "What we have to learn is not that the church 'has' a mission, but the very reverse: that the mission of Christ creates its own church. The Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is creation of a new world. 'The best is yet to come'." - Moltmann