@Plough @myleswerntz 2/ Perhaps, in empowering ourselves to be co-creators of an eco-social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives, through "deeds which as it were, helping to bring about the redemption” (Scholem), we meet God (Isa. 59:20) half-way (Rom. 11:26).
@AimeTim And in this, a powerful correspondence with Fromm’s notion of the messianic event as the product of a this-worldly, historical, human effort, differing dramatically from the catastrophic messianism of, say, Benjamin, Marcuse and Scholem. Frankly, I don’t see why it can’t be both.
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Copy of tweet here: Because. Because. It has taken until now to realize the staggering anthropological and co-evolutionary significance of the Cross because the moral, intellectual, and epistemological effects of the Gospel revelation have of necessity developed gradually. 13/ Nick Routledge · Last words, from Rene Girard: “...beyond all that disfigures it in our eyes, the truth of the victim that we at last possess is the greatest, most fortunate event in the history of religion and the whole of humanity.” /end