@JosephBottum @johnmilbank3 The issue then, reconciliation. Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes, Ibn 'Arabi, Shah Wali Allah, Mulla Sadra and key Islamic poets comprehensively address the tension. Thanks, in part, to his context, al-Ghazali may have secured the fullest assimilative embrace at the planetary level.
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1/ My impression, as 'planetary comparatist', is that Islam may be the boldest attempt to affirm both poles of this dilemma inherent in the prophetic tradition; that is, the suffering paradox uniting the authority of the past and authenticity of present experience; the gift of... 2/ ...the Book with the gift of individual autonomy and, yes, the truths sustaining Sunni and Shiite, sharia and tariqah, Sunni and Sufi... Meanwhile, Ghazali, our supreme theologian of consensus, recognizes a universal call to prophecy, with each according to their ability…
@SherPoint 5/ Then again, what if the deliverance of a realm of perception and liberating activity transcending the occupying ground of secular and religious structures of consciousness and power gone mad for the illusion of separateness, is far closer to us than we had ever imagined?
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Copy of tweet here: 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) twitter.com/nick_routledge…