@Plough 1/3 It pays to acknowledge our littleness, perhaps. Reality far transcends Christian enclosure. The second, as first, advent announces an ontic novelty incontestably more generous than the momentum of social, cultic or political associations - indeed, of temporality itself.
Image description
Original X alt text
Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here:
Extended description
Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I'm so sorry Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1865081338728190142 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jonmsweeney I'm so sorry. What, then, of a hermaneutic reappraising the sunburst of the messianic as our planetary birthright, as distinct, that is, from crucifying it as shopworn religion? For one, the sanctification of God in history embraces a great deal more than Judeo-Christian culture. t.co/lpuWnq2WhW t.co/ntJwqx0Xlf
Open original documentExtended description
Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 C'mon / 2 Perhaps / 3 The charge Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet thread here: 1/ C’mon. Ratioing fellow Theobros over the central meaning of the Jesus Event, the human-divine synthesis of Luther's 'deus humanus et humanus deus', is getting a little long in the tooth, dontcha think? 2,000 years in, and you’d think we could have got it sorted out by now, eh?@nick_routledge 2/ Perhaps celebrity-worship is partly our undoing - a fiercely constrained sense of Incarnation enslaved to the delusion that life, meaning and God-experience are elsewhere rather than everywhere; in Him alone rather than in Reality as a whole. 3/ The charge of Judaism and other world religions that the Messiah cannot have come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent in this regard. Then again, organized religion conflating the false sacred with the true sacred is hardly a uniquely Christian trip.
Open original documentExtended description
Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Moltmann/Scholem Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 20 The Eliatic Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @brianmclaren 20/ The Eliatic function's universal cast (Moltmann: '"Messianism is the idea which Israel gave the world,” affirmed Gershom Scholem’) was, of course, conclusively sealed by Prophet Mohammed's (PBUH) gesture formally consecrating prophetology's _planetary_ theo-political aim. t.co/ebOKz27Md8
Open original document@pauljpastor 2/ The fallacy, pardonable. For the most part, the Church's interpretation of the sunburst of the messianic remains shockingly threadbare relative to, say, other traditions - an oversight reflecting, in part, an occupational bias favoring the First Coming over the Second.
Image description
Original X alt text
Copy of tweet here: 4/ Our present modernity can be characterized by its endless deferral of judgment, “a secularized parody of the Church’s incessant deferral of the last judgment” (Agamben), an institution that can only preserve its own existence by endlessly postponing the judgment it announces.