@johnmilbank3 In the face of an immediate, full-blown transcendence indivisibly and interactively accessible right here, right now, a stuckness effectively banishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality is more fully orthopractic than theological. The Kingdom is presential.
@BrianZahnd Indeed, I'd aver Schleiermacher's 'cultured despisers' of religion describes 'religious' as much as 'non-religious' dismissal of Reality as fully, supernaturally here. Incarnation, a participatory threshold defined by passing over from God-belief into God-experience itself, then?
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Excerpt from tweet thread: Aṭṭār Christians who somehow manage to reconcile their faith with the sort of complacent, sneering scientism one would normally expect of a strident atheist or secular humanist are very puzzling. I had in mind smug dismissals of notions of enchantment (or, in a Barfieldian register, original participation). There's something genuinely bizarre about being at once a Christian and someone who thinks a participatory ontology is woo woo.