Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@johnmilbank3 His 2014 announcement doubting the existence of God? Keating: "The notion that God is absent is the fundamental illusion of the human condition." What is faith alive after all, other than an ontic threshold delineated by passing over from God-belief into God-experience itself.

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...Faith, that is, not as a ‘label’ commonly referring to the forms, concepts and rationalizations of
religious and materialist logic and, as such, caricatures of reality co-existent with, say, fallacies of certitude; rather, as an experiential threshold accessing the surge of a supra-personal mystery, intelligence, telos, power and portal. And this, in the context of, for example, Seyedd Hossein Nasr's: "The empirical epistemology which has dominated the horizon of Western man in the modern period, has succeeded in removing the concept of “reality” as a category pertaining to God. The consequence of this change in the very meaning of reality has been nothing less than catastrophic, reducing God and in fact all spiritual realms of being to the category of the abstract and finally to the unreal’, and quantum physicist, David Bohm: "Take a coherent approach to reality and reality takes a coherent approach to you"
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Excerpt from Facebook post: ...Faith, that is, not as a ‘label’ commonly referring to the forms, concepts and rationalizations of religious and materialist logic and, as such, caricatures of reality co-existent with, say, fallacies of certitude; rather, as an experiential threshold accessing the surge of a supra-personal mystery, intelligence, telos, power and portal. And this, in the context of, for example, Seyedd Hossein Nasr's: "The empirical epistemology which has dominated the horizon of Western man in the modern period, has succeeded in removing the concept of “reality” as a category pertaining to God. The consequence of this change in the very meaning of reality has been nothing less than catastrophic, reducing God and in fact all spiritual realms of being to the category of the abstract and finally to the unreal’, and quantum physicist, David Bohm: "Take a coherent approach to reality and reality takes a coherent approach to you"

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 1 Nov 2024

@joynessthebrave Ordinarily, I find the word and phenomenon 'supernatural' belittled among those who identify as 'educated'. High-culture folk, typically. A serious surprise, then, the advent of a Day transparent to eternity, settling supernatural terms at the planetary level, once and for all.

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3/ How is this bastard claim upon immanence itself, overthrown? Through a response recoupling the material world with its transcendent dimension, experienced in concrete reality as a seismic shift in our sense of truth, meaning, relatedness, significance, morality and sanity.
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Copy of tweet here: 3/ How is this bastard claim upon immanence itself, overthrown? Through a response recoupling the material world with its transcendent dimension, experienced in concrete reality as a seismic shift in our sense of truth, meaning, relatedness, significance, morality and sanity.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis That second page, the cosmic elephant in the room. And yet, religious/spiritual culture is itself often no less estranged from experience or recognition of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power, presence and telos of the Living God, than its most cynical deprecators.Quoted by@lukeburgis That second page, the cosmic elephant in the room. And yet, religious/spiritual culture is itself often no less estranged from experience or recognition of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power, presence and telos of the Living God, than its most cynical deprecators.