@roddreher @lukeburgis @PageauJonathan Certain it is that the empirical everydayness of late-stage Spectacle is an enchantment. W. Wink: "The passion that drove the early Christians was fired above all by relief at being liberated from the delusions being spun over them by the Powers. Being thus freed..." 1 Cor. 15:24
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There is disenchantment in the world. There is disillusionment in the world. There is grief, epistemological grief, in the world, and it needs an agonist, it needs a prot-agonist. It needs an Orestes. It needs an Oedipus. It needs an Antigone. It needs a Phaedra. It needs a Job who will suffer it to deadly standstill on the road to Areopagus Rock, on the road, a long time un walked, to Colonus. That way it will become un-ignorable. That way it will come out from being a private grief and be a public inheritance. What I have in mind when I talk about refounding ourselves psychically is that we would walk out of an order that has its origin in Marduk reaching for the sword and would walk into an order, not yet inaugurated, that has its origin in Jesus reaching for the karmic cup. That way, civility might cease to be a seedbed of savagery more frightful because more poisoned than anything we are likely to encounter in the wild. That way also, we may... - John Moriarty, Nostos
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Fintan O'Toole, Benjamin and von Balthasar in separate bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And Fintan / If I may Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: And, Fintan O’Toole: "A false notion of greatness must be given a decent burial. If there is really to be a new creation, there must be no doubt that the old world is dead." And Benjamin: “The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he also comes as the vanquisher of Antichrist.” If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized", "reason": "Nick explicitly writes Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?). Image and exact saved source preserve that uncertainty; no supported choice between those authors."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Eckhart Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Yes and a conversion Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1806090642667557257 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis Yes, and a conversion that doesn't take context into account is no conversion at all. Jesus didn't come to gussy up a half-way house, rather, to announce the advent of an entirely new social reality. Eckhart: “There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half." t.co/OcfccWVKBQ t.co/LadvgeurXY Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized", "reason": "Nick explicitly writes Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?). Image and exact saved source preserve that uncertainty; no supported choice between those authors."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Gandhi and tentative Heschel/Scholem Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Echoing Gandhi Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1806090642667557257 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis Echoing Gandhi's substrative take, there: "The sphere of spirit and politics is one." Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?), similarly: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change." t.co/65a5pZrO4B t.co/VnUaw2aPnj Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized", "reason": "Nick explicitly writes Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?). Image and exact saved source preserve that uncertainty; no supported choice between those authors."}]
Open original document@BrianZahnd Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex" (Whiteley).
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With the conversion of the emperor Constantine, however, the Roman Empire took over from the church the role of God's providential agent in the world. Once Christianity became the religion of the empire, notes theologian J. Denny Weaver, its success was linked to the success of the empire and preservation of the empire became the decisive criterion for ethical behavior. The Christus Victor theology feli out of favor, not because of intrinsic inadequacies, but because it was subversive to the church’s role as state religion. The church no longer saw the demonic as lodged in the empire, but in the empire’s enemies. Because society was now regarded as Christian, atonement became a highly individual transaction between the believer and God. The idea that the work of Christ involves the radical critique of society was largely abandoned. - Walter Wink, The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium
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Copy of tweet here: Perhaps it's timely to ask to what degree all of us have been 'NPC-ed' by the peak deception of a monolithic caricature of reality-in-actuality, and the immense array of epistemologies and institutions its all-pervasive optics exclusively represent, validate and secure? @nick_routledge and @johnrobb 2/ Then again, a culturally-constructed Spectacle passing for substantive reality is hardly news; nor, for that matter, is the dark sorcery of veiled powers commanding us to be fooled by appearances - ravenous wolves disguised as angels of light. There is another way, of course.