@RobertEllsberg Robert, it feels timely to acknowledge and thank you for the pivotal English-speaking role @OrbisBooks continues to play in the revelation of a realm and reign of truth announcing our integral liberation from a diabolical catastrophe of religio-political fictions and polemics.
@AimeTim 1/2 Dan Castillo is most valuable in clarifying how Francis’ concept of integral ecology “maps onto the levels of liberation delineated by Gutiérrez, while expanding the breadth of concern proper to integral liberation by also encompassing a preferential option for the earth.”
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Copy of tweet here: We must go further. As such, the advent of the 'prophetic earthwork' movement as a bio-composite communion or convivium of land-based service work. To recalibrate or reintegrate Illich: “The kingdom is an eco-social reality at a transcendental level." I suspect geologian Thomas Berry would paint that as a classic case of 'anthropocentric autism' - a religious compass thoroughly divorced from grounding in Nature's harmony, proportions, integrity and, yes, concretized Christification. Faith profoundly unhinged. Xianity lite. Castillo: "Integral liberation cannot be separated from the process of integral communion." Ellen Davis: "The threefold communion with God, neighbor, and earth properly constitutes Christified space." We are called, in other words, to the salvation of "an ecological conversion."
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Cover of Daniel P. Castillo’s ‘An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology. Forward by Gustavo Gutiérrez