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@brianmclaren 18/ In ‘Abrahamic’ cultures, the manifestation most fully denoting the Revelatory Principle is Elias, described in the Quran in a plural form, ‘Illyāsīn’ (Q 37 130-131), comprising all figures, real or imaginal, fulfilling the function of universal initiator, authority and guide.

Excerpt of tweet thread here: Walter Brueggemann’s latest. (2023) After a lifetime of total immersion in the Hebrew Scriptures, Walter Brueggemann has basically turned into a modern day Hebrew prophet—a contemporary irascible Amos who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. And I’m here for it! 😎 I note his preface explicitly calls for Rabbinic engagement. Previously, we've here celebrated the goodly fellowship between between WB and AJHeschel. Can you recommend any Brueggemann texts which specifically address Christian theo-political correlatives with Jewish messianism? 2/ Seems to me a key bridge involves embracing the imamite third side of the vital triangle. The tripartite prototype who fits the bill is Elijah (or Khezr as he’s known in Islam) who represents divine revelation of the mystery and promise of reconciliation. Divinity spreading.
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Excerpt of tweet thread here: Walter Brueggemann’s latest. (2023) After a lifetime of total immersion in the Hebrew Scriptures, Walter Brueggemann has basically turned into a modern day Hebrew prophet—a contemporary irascible Amos who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. And I’m here for it! 😎 I note his preface explicitly calls for Rabbinic engagement. Previously, we've here celebrated the goodly fellowship between between WB and AJHeschel. Can you recommend any Brueggemann texts which specifically address Christian theo-political correlatives with Jewish messianism? 2/ Seems to me a key bridge involves embracing the imamite third side of the vital triangle. The tripartite prototype who fits the bill is Elijah (or Khezr as he’s known in Islam) who represents divine revelation of the mystery and promise of reconciliation. Divinity spreading.

Copy of tweet thread here: 1/ And also, of course, the patron saint of Moscow. One of the more popular, trans-historical, trans-cultural prototypes in our midst, St. George or Khezr as he is known in Islam, has of late come to represent a transcendent, evolutionary turn within common, planetary experience. Quote tweet: 3/ Here's HRH Prince Charles: “We forget too easily that the veneration of the Virgin is shared in the Middle East to this day by Christians and Muslims alike; that the mysterious prophet of the Muslims, Al-Khidir, was identified with the Christian St George. To this day..." end/ In essence, he represents a revelatory mode, heralding our 'belated' recognition of something essential and ordinary about us, a natural aspect of being with life where the worldly and spiritual, 'earthly and celestial', mix and match. Life as fundamentally co-evolutionary.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 1/ And also, of course, the patron saint of Moscow. One of the more popular, trans-historical, trans-cultural prototypes in our midst, St. George or Khezr as he is known in Islam, has of late come to represent a transcendent, evolutionary turn within common, planetary experience. Quote tweet: 3/ Here's HRH Prince Charles: “We forget too easily that the veneration of the Virgin is shared in the Middle East to this day by Christians and Muslims alike; that the mysterious prophet of the Muslims, Al-Khidir, was identified with the Christian St George. To this day..." end/ In essence, he represents a revelatory mode, heralding our 'belated' recognition of something essential and ordinary about us, a natural aspect of being with life where the worldly and spiritual, 'earthly and celestial', mix and match. Life as fundamentally co-evolutionary.

The Muslim tradition also has a spiritual function which corresponds to that of Elias, and affirms that it is exercised by two people in particular, each of whom has his own field of activity. We do not mean Elias himself, who is mentioned in the Koran along with Jesus and also in his battle against the worshippers of Baal; firstly, it is al-Khidr who, in the esoteric tradition of Islam, is invested with the same fundamental characteristics as Elias…He is, above all, Master of the spiritual solitaries, of those elect beings to whom he reveals himself as an ocean of initiating and universal wisdom, an inexhaustible source of enlightenment… As for the other person who reflects Elias in Islam, he is the one who will come…to establish what the Judeo-Christian tradition calls the “Glorious Reign of the Messiah,” he is Al-Mahdi, the one “Guided” by God. Shi’ite Islam identifies him with the Twelfth Imam, living hidden for centuries and due to re-appear to fulfill his eschatological work.
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The Muslim tradition also has a spiritual function which corresponds to that of Elias, and affirms that it is exercised by two people in particular, each of whom has his own field of activity. We do not mean Elias himself, who is mentioned in the Koran along with Jesus and also in his battle against the worshippers of Baal; firstly, it is al-Khidr who, in the esoteric tradition of Islam, is invested with the same fundamental characteristics as Elias…He is, above all, Master of the spiritual solitaries, of those elect beings to whom he reveals himself as an ocean of initiating and universal wisdom, an inexhaustible source of enlightenment… As for the other person who reflects Elias in Islam, he is the one who will come…to establish what the Judeo-Christian tradition calls the “Glorious Reign of the Messiah,” he is Al-Mahdi, the one “Guided” by God. Shi’ite Islam identifies him with the Twelfth Imam, living hidden for centuries and due to re-appear to fulfill his eschatological work.

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@UssamaMakdisi end/ In part, the monumental significance of the cataclysm now unfolding in the Holy Land derives from the encounter of the three great Semitic religions and, correspondingly, the unifying articulation of an Eliatic concordance miraculously revealed in tripartite reconciliation.

Copy of tweet thread here: 1/ I hadn't encountered the Rabbinic connection though it certainly resonates with Khezr's Eliatic function as a trans-historical, prophetic prototype heralding a fundamentally *reconciliatory* dimension of experience coalescing, ultimately, as a planetary-saving arrival. 1/ The green prophetic prototype is an ancient one. The core, transcultural 'transmitter', combining several Quranic, Biblical and ancient mythical heroes, is reckoned to be Khezr, the 'Islamic' prototype of Elijah, the prophetic Green Man of Islam… Quote tweet: Transcending and including cultures, religions and *realms*, no less. Indeed, perhaps his revelatory significance as a fundamentally reconciliatory, planetary archetype has never been more clear-cut?
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Copy of tweet thread here: 1/ I hadn't encountered the Rabbinic connection though it certainly resonates with Khezr's Eliatic function as a trans-historical, prophetic prototype heralding a fundamentally *reconciliatory* dimension of experience coalescing, ultimately, as a planetary-saving arrival. 1/ The green prophetic prototype is an ancient one. The core, transcultural 'transmitter', combining several Quranic, Biblical and ancient mythical heroes, is reckoned to be Khezr, the 'Islamic' prototype of Elijah, the prophetic Green Man of Islam… Quote tweet: Transcending and including cultures, religions and *realms*, no less. Indeed, perhaps his revelatory significance as a fundamentally reconciliatory, planetary archetype has never been more clear-cut?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RobDoyle1 Actually, the Shi'ite 'Hidden Imam', and Khidr/Khezr, 'the Green One' of Islamic lore, are two among multiple personifications of a single, multifaceted, planetarian prophetological prototype—what Corbin calls "the rigorous unity of the prophetic Revelatory Principle in history."Quoted by@RobDoyle1 Actually, the Shi'ite 'Hidden Imam', and Khidr/Khezr, 'the Green One' of Islamic lore, are two among multiple personifications of a single, multifaceted, planetarian prophetological prototype—what Corbin calls "the rigorous unity of the prophetic Revelatory Principle in history."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Shermanicus end/ Perhaps unsurprisingly, conception of the Eliatic function remains fractured within the Abrahamic complex—few are familiar with the emergent principle of planetary prophetological unity, and fewer still are willing to relinquish the exceptionalist claims precluding it.Quoted by@Shermanicus end/ Perhaps unsurprisingly, conception of the Eliatic function remains fractured within the Abrahamic complex—few are familiar with the emergent principle of planetary prophetological unity, and fewer still are willing to relinquish the exceptionalist claims precluding it.Quoted by@EsmeLKPartridge @TheTLS Here we go, Esmé, circling back to Khezr again! Meanwhile, the Church's conception of the Eliatic function remains strikingly threadbare relative to, say, other traditions - an oversight deriving, in part, from a hermeneutic more fully focused upon the First Coming than Second.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jonas_adelin @DKinterchurch @Oikoumene @ceceurope Following on from @jakobwiren, perhaps consider the Eliatic function - the ontic advent of a planetary prophetology which, crucially, in incarnation alone, illuminates a 'foreign policy' (Svartik) of 'co-evolutionary synergy' transcending religious and cultural Balkanization.Quoted by@jonas_adelin @DKinterchurch @Oikoumene @ceceurope Following on from @jakobwiren, perhaps consider the Eliatic function - the ontic advent of a planetary prophetology which, crucially, in incarnation alone, illuminates a 'foreign policy' (Svartik) of 'co-evolutionary synergy' transcending religious and cultural Balkanization.Quoted by@DalrympleWill @sirharrysummit @motazazaizalive Thank you for reporting back, William. May the vicious circle give way to a vital cycle that finally silences the arrogance of man, revealing a positive, planetary-saving anthropology functionally addressing the totality of human and earthly needs. So shall evil be destroyed.