@HaddenTurner @AdomasW What is Incarnation, after all? "Not to turn from the world to God but to turn to God in the world," Teilhard says. A uniquely Christian promise _and_ challenge, then. Only to the degree we embrace the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection, do we embrace the Incarnation.
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Copy of tweet here: 3/ If native, concrete experience of the intimate link between Creation and Incarnation represents a singular, unified dynamism, how might a ‘co-evolutionary sacramentality’, enfleshed, uplift our daily lives? What nature, the terms of earthly and human solidarity?
@brianmclaren @Greg1Garrett Homing in on the Turtle Island current, are you aware Heȟáka Sápa ('Black Elk') is currently a candidate for canonization? I wonder if he and the icon-painter, Fr. John Giuliani, discovered in messianic indigeneity, the reconciliation and fulfillment of path and peace, incarnate.
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Lakota Victory Christ, by Fr. John Giuliani. "Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
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Hopi Virgin and Child, by Fr. John Giuliani. "The hands of this Hopi Virgin Mother join with the gentle reach of her son in expressing the prophetic pain of human love and separation. Theirs is a cannon destiny--the return of the gift received. Both the mother’s manta and child’s shirt are richly embroidered with traditional Hopi design and symbol. She wears a multi-layered bead necklace; and her ceremonial moccasins rubbed with kaolin take on the seasoned patina of an old adobe wall. The virgin child stands barefoot on a Moquin pattern serape. Shawled in a particular Hopi child’s fabric, he appears prophetically rabbinic. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
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Annunciation, by Fr. John Giuliani. Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
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Navajo Jesus and Disciples, by Fr. John Giuliani. Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."