'He is Risen'? So what, if our essential, everyday allegiance rejects the costly obedience of messianic identity for the cheap grace of a religious science of containment. Are our days faithful to the cruciform messiahship of Jesus, or have we betrayed His resurrection?
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ Someone needs to say it: we have made of Jesus an idol. This hocus-pocus of false shepherds, our cartoon caricature of the Incarnation (“a sort of constant triumphal story” as @stewartdantec names it) effectively banishes the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality. Quote tweet: "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage.
@GabrielSaidR In Church, Mosque or Temple, which topics are deigned to remain inconsequential? Moltmann, no less, avers messianology a core derogation of all systems existentially beholden to endlessly postponing the judgment they announce. No matter. Nothing eclipses the Day of the Messiah.
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Copy of tweet here: and 2/ His invocation, democratic. Moltmann avers: "Theology is the business of all God’s people." Moses went further, of course: "Would to God that all the Lord’s people were Prophets." The hermaneutic of @unitethepoor, then? Inclusive, universal, planetary, prophetic, interruptive. Thank you. If 'liberation theology is theology that liberates theology to liberate', then the interruptive ontology of an 'irruption of the poor' frees us from the containment of base, integral religious and political hegemony in a Day of universal, unifying liberation. Ultimately, the Hour isn't a promise to comparative theologians such as ourselves, but to the world's poor - of the revelation and liberation of a realm and reign of truth transcending all fictions and polemics sustaining secular, as much as religious, tyranny and division.