@pauljpastor I concur with your gist, Paul, though I'm a tad uncomfortable with the use of 'folk religion' as a pejorative. I, for one, would aver the fullness of the Cosmic Christ can be realized only as an essentially parochial, indigenous phenomenon. Every resurrection, ultimately local.
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Copy of tweet here: "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia." Whatever we call it - the Reign, Body of the Buddha, Land of the Lotus Paradise, New Jerusalem - reality in its wholeness is fully an eco-cultural phenomenon born of a dynamic complex of mutual adaptation, co-evolution, companionship and synergy. 1/6 It was John Moriarty, a gardener at the Carmelite priory in Boars Hill, Oxford, who declared, "Jesus is our hero of integration." As he interprets it, the deep ecology of peacemaking effects and requires an integral, intra-realm response to a symbiotic eco-cultural challenge. @nick_routledge Jun 15 1/ The Heaven of Earth, actualized? A unified, bio-cultural simultaneity. Wendell Berry: “You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.” Integral ecology in practice, then? The Resurrection Body of our salvation, made. "Praying is not enough."
@AimeTim 4/ Yes, root and branch are in conjoined interplay in a single helix of presence. So then, if Creation and Incarnation ultimately exist as a dynamic Intelligence, how might a corporeal matrix of encounter and experience resurrect our world and us, in the same place and breath?
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Juergen Moltmann: If this potency is inherent in the earth, if there is a hidden presence of Christ in the earth of this kind, then in looking for the coming of Christ in glory our gaze cannot be directed merely to heaven, as is generally thought (“. . . from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead’). And then Christoph Blumhardt could be right: “Nature is the womb of God. Out of the earth God will come to meet us again. But as yet we have no fellowship with nature. We admire her, but often trample her underfoot, using her unreasonably. Consequently nature still confronts us with icy reserve, and feels that she is alien to us. But something different must come . . . we must arrive at harmony between human beings and nature. Then both will be content. And that will be the solution for the social question. Remainder of alt-text for this image is attached as alt-text to the following image.
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Abstract image of Cross with calligraphy, reading: One Heaven One Earth One Now Remainder of text from previous image: ...It follows from these eschatological ideas that the earth is not dead matter, and not expendable material - but neither is the earth the Mother Gaia who engenders and slays. This earth, with its world of the living, is the real and sensorily experienceable promise of the new earth, as truly as this earthly, mortal life here is an experienceable promise of the life that is eternal, immortal. If the divine Redeemer is himself present in this earth in hidden form, then the earth becomes the bearer or vehicle of his and our future. But in that case there is no fellowship with Christ without fellowship with the earth. Love for Christ and hope for him embrace love and hope for the earth. For an eschatology that is christologically grounded and ecologically responsibly with maintained, there is no better concept.
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Painting of Jesus the Prophet surrounded by green halo, with calligraphy reading, Green Christ