@JYSexton I didn't know that about you, Jared. I had a profoundly unpleasant religious upbringing, the whole way through, which has powerfully shaped my path through life. Curious, as such, if and how the transcendent function lands with you these days. Have you written about it anywhere?
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Copy of tweet here: @nick_routledge @AimeTim and @UniteThePoor 3/ What *is* ‘poor peoples’ political theology’? For one, we’re clear that redemptive time is actualized in concrete reality, constituting a messianic reality of world emancipation freeing us from enslavement by supremacist political and religious fictions, polemics and powers.
@lukeburgis end/ A pattern of desire unaware of its own hostility? No finer camouflage than a theological blind, nor logic of religious antagonism more unifying and self-justified than the false sacred cloaked as true. The mimetic escalation of a deeper, genuine Wholeness transcends it all.
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Copy of tweet and QT here: Same on the streets, never mind in the Academy. Let's be honest. It's time for a fresh start. "From time to time, the image of God has to die so not to become an idol. It has to become transparent to transcendence to be renewed." ~ Joseph Campbell Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up. end/ And where Ernst Bloch identified the functional atheism of dominative Christian culture’s denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the living God among us, right here, right now, Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asked, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!"