@trippfuller end/ The Verus Propheta's primary obstacle? Dominative, global structures of consciousness and power militantly vested in a totalized, symbiotic, existential imperative to eclipse the Messianic. No matter. The supersessive truth of Reality will not be denied nor its Day deferred.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Shane Claiborne @ShaneClaiborne, October9,2024 Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. It just doesn’t feel like it’s asking too much to want a President who will refuse to support and fund the genocide in Gaza.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1844155682859491482 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ShaneClaiborne Ask in vain, brother. Meanwhile, "the transcendent breaking-in of eternity that plunges all human history into its final crisis" (Moltmann) connotes a crisis only insofar as Christus Victor heralds total planetary liberation from a maniacal catastrophe of religio-political evil. t.co/1XhLYsNpMD
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Paul Holdengraber quoting Walter Benjamin Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. "This is how one pictures the Angel of History. His face is turned to the past. A storm is blowing from Paradise. It has got caught in his wings with such violence the angel can no longer close them. This storm is what we call progress." ~ Walter Benjamin on Klee's Angelus Novus Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin a core theo-political motif—the anti-Christ. Not mythology but the System itself—a total machine of illusion, sacrifice and ruin—enthroned as progress, crowning itself destiny. "That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe." ~ Walter Benjamin Benjamin also foresaw the ‘messianic eclipse’ bound within such catastrophic permanency ending in the game-ending 'blast' of a "tempieternal explosion” (Panikkar); a sudden, 'messianic arrest' yoking the architecture of redemptive time to everyday, temporal, political reality. “The crises become “states of permanent exception and emergency,” and a permanent state of exception is, of course, no longer exceptional. Crisis is "our normal state", crisis that never resolves, “no crisis at all”. Why? Because resolving it would end the game. 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.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick and Walter Benjamin ThesisVI card Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1892212802536034641 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Fleeing Paris, Benjamin entrusted the Angelus Novus print to Georges Bataille for safekeeping. He handed his 'Theses on the Concept of History' to Hannah Arendt in Marseilles, where she was in hiding, having already escaped the Gestapo in Germany and an internment camp in France. “For the Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” Walter Benjamin, Thesis VI, ‘Theses on the Concept of History’ Subtweet: The Angel of History flew with its own wings. Shortly before his doomed flight, Benjamin entrusted the Klee print - his most treasured possession, he claimed - to Georges Bataille. Then, it found its way to Theodor Adorno and, later, to Benjamin's dear friend, Gershom Scholem. "For the rebirth of messianic thinking out of the catastrophe of Christian humanism in WWI, we are indebted to #martinbuber, #ernstbloch & #franzrosenweig, #walterbenjamin & #theodoradorno, #gershomscholem & #margaretesusman, and after WWII... #karllowith & #jacobtaubes." 1/ "Out of the ruins of historical rationality they rescued hope as a theological category. Without their messianic thinking, eschatology today is literally unthinkable." - The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism, 'The Coming of God', Christian Eschatology. #juergenmoltmannn 2/
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Messiah. Image and Calligraphy. Acrylic inks on paper. #nofilter
@Plough 1/3 If Jesus lands as the embodiment of a love seeking to materialize in all ways, the Quran forges a new sense of tawhid, a unity of peace that isn't sameness but honors difference. Keller: "Entangled difference applies as much to interreligious as intercreaturely solidarities."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And how to translate that judgment Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1825921152826618019 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough "And how to translate that judgment into an agency immanent to history, one sufficiently powerful to disrupt the rule of capital before nothing remains to be saved, is the great question of all political thought of any real substance in the modern world." So? t.co/whjCQ7vRXp
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Paul J. Pastor quoting C.S. Lewis; Christopher Honey; Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Of all tyrannies / I love Lewis / Precisely Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies ... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end...” — C.S. Lewis I love Lewis (especially A Grief Observed and the Four Loves), but this feels like something said by someone who was never oppressed by robber barons. Precisely. Where the Eschatological Event - by no means a peculiarly Christian phenomenon - ends the cosy, exceptionalist, privilege defining that particular moral code and the perpetual oppression of the world's poor its symbiotic religio-secular apologetics blindly sanction.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Ben Meyer Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Sufis call the human soul Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1880497922892263810 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “It is my contention that theological language and prophetic call is the only language of justice left to counter the language of the market.” Laurie Zoloth, "The Coming Storm: Climate Change and Jewish Thought", p.29. Sufis call the human soul the 'Nafs Natiqa', the speaking soul. As for the radical devalution of the market, a planetary prophetological wedding of World Soul and Word proclaims "an eschatological state of affairs, a reversal of fortunes and transvaluation of values" - Ben Meyer I am becoming increasingly convinced that the abstract concept of "the economy" is a demonic principality. Not even joking. You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’” Quote tweet: 1/2 Forty years ago, investigating a white hot trail of systemic, criminal connivance at stratospheric levels of international finance, the UK's Official Secrets Act shut me down. Then again, in complete defeat, my initiation: I'd seen the truest face of global political economy. “Who will police the police?” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? #juvenal I can answer that question. No one. My first career? Journalism, with a specialist interest in oversight of the international financial system. 2/2 “Notes and References 10. Nick Routledge, ‘How The Bank of England Failed The JMB Test’, Euromoney, February 1985, pp. 49–56. Google Scholar”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Josiah Hawthorne; Nick Routledge quoting Shoshana Zuboff Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I am becoming / You're not alone Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet thread here: I am becoming increasingly convinced that the abstract concept of "the economy" is a demonic principality. Not even joking. You're not alone. No matter their era or area of origin, planetary prophets universally identify moneytheism and its full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination, as ‘The Big Lie that economic logic is the only model that will work.’ - Shoshana Zuboff Quote tweet: 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 6/ Jesus was executed Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 6/ “...Jesus was executed because the Empire is scared to death of a neighborly economy.” And, the Holy Qu’ran: “And we never sent a warner to a community but its affluent members say, ‘We reject what you were sent with.’”
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