RT @nick_routledge: @Sophiologist_ A tai-chi master first alerted me to the metaphysical power of channeling rootedness, in concrete reality; a mind-blowing experience awakening me thence to deep agrarianism as perhaps the highest of martial arts. Pick on a paradise gardener? Pick a fight with co-evolution itself.
@SherPoint Taking a Zarathustran motif further, Redemption does not therefore destroy the terrestrial world (the Zoroastrian Mazdean ‘getik’) but re-couples or re-originates it with its celestial reality (‘menok’) restoring it to its luminous state, its archetypal dimension. Here, Moltmann:
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Edited down by 640 characters... If this potency is inherent in the earth, if there is a hidden presence ofChrist 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 And then Christoph Blumhardt could be right: 'Nature is the womb of God. Out of the earth God will come to meet us again....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. It follows from these eschatological ideas that the earth is not dead matter, and not expendable material...lf 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.