@mchlmorelli @trippfuller @HomebrewedXnty end/ And the 'machina' of the 'deus ex' or, as Ellul might define it, 'the messianic technique' obviating a totalizing existential apostasy? ‘Hypertext,’ noted Michael Heim in 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality’ (1995), 'refers to the existence of a hidden, unnoticed dimension.’
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsn Image of abstract anthropomorphized cross with calligraphy reading, ‘The Interface is You’ Quote tweet: 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message."
@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."}]
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