Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@Agent888488 Illich: "…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Aug 2024

@johnmilbank3 We must go further. As such, the advent of the 'prophetic earthwork' movement as a bio-composite communion or convivium of land-based service work. To recalibrate or reintegrate Illich: “The kingdom is an eco-social reality at a transcendental level."

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Quoted by@PageauJonathan 14/ Such truth is born of context, not from authority. It isn't declared by recognition, claim, or ordination, but by the shift in reality around the being-in-relation of the one who bears it. New meaning and cosmology unfold. Not charismatic identity but incarnational rupture.Quoted by@pbdmcniel And elsewhere this moment, the immediate relevance of this post to this thread suddenly occurs to me. Gibran comes to mind, too: "Where we are most vulnerable is where loving is not always easy. When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.”