RT @nick_routledge: @johnmilbank3 As such, concrete reality is the covenantal realm in which the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection, the solidarity of social and planetary renewal, lands. Planetary Parousia is a co-evolutionary helix; the heaven of earth, one realm; the Kingdom, the Soul's homecoming.
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Juergen Moltmann, The Coming of God If this potency is inherent in the earth, if there is a hidden presence of Christ 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 (“. . . from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead’). And then Christoph Blumhardt could be right: "Nature is the womb of God. Out of the earth God will come to meet us again. But as yet we have no fellowship with nature. We admire her, but often trample her underfoot, using her unreasonably. Consequently nature still confronts us with icy reserve, and feels that she is alien to us. But something different must come . . . 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.
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It follows from these eschatological ideas that the earth is not dead matter, and not expendable material — but neither is the earth the Mother Gaia who engenders and slays. This earth, with its world of the living, is the real and sensorily experienceable promise of the new earth, as truly as this earthly, mortal life here is an experienceable promise of the life that is eternal, immortal. If 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. For an eschatology that is christologically grounded and ecologically responsibly maintained, there is no better concept.
@krumbbumm A perfect rejoinder, thank you. Wholeness, then, indivisibly embraces a co-evolutionary or indigenous dimension. Kabir cuts to a no-nonsense summation: "What is found now is found then." Not there, but here. Not escape: arrival. "Thy will be done on _Earth_ as it is in Heaven."
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Copy of tweet thread here: "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage. And, of course, the vacant transcendence of ‘Rapture' fantasies, which indigenous traditions in particular recognize as no more than wishful escapism from "a subordinate space - whether as a sinful plane, riddled with temptation, needing to be transcended and left behind; or...” “...a menacing region needing to be beaten and bent to our will; or simply a vaguely disturbing dimension to be avoided, superseded and explained away" (David Abram)