@jasonwblakely As if the exceptionalism a nation, religion or culture believes it has, can somehow evade a crowning planetary authority revealing a new and vital coherence transcending the mimetic crisis of chronically malignant fictions and fabrications sustaining the entire, global shebang.
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Copy of tweet here: · 5/ Brueggemann: “The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim...” · 6/ “...This judgment can be tested by asking any would-be prophetic preacher to identify the topics that cannot be mentioned in church...” - Brueggemann · 7/ “The list of them reflects the totalizing exceptionalism that is given religious sanction and that seeks to silence any question about that claim.” - Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic Imagination
@Naifalbidh No world culture can save itself from the global tyranny of peak modernism, alone. Correspondingly, messianic eschatology, the unifying articulation of planetary prophetology and the realized intervention it positively represents, arrives at an all-inclusive, planetary level.
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Messiah. Image and Calligraphy. Acrylic inks on paper. #nofilter