Out walking this morning, a few thoughts on the shocking apocalyptic hopefulness of Rev. 21. @brianmclaren: "That's why Revelation ends with a single word. That word is not WAIT! Nor is NOT YET! or SOMEDAY! It is a word not of ending, but of #NewBeginning. That one word is COME!"
11/ We didn't come into this world: we came out of it. #DeepIncarnation doesn't lead us away from materiality but straight into and through it. Not escape then, but homecoming to a wholeness perfecting itself in the Paradisal unicity of human and earthly #Resurrection. #Parousia
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Copy of tweet including complete alt-text of the Keller excerpt, here: "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals….” Rev. 21: 3. Catherine Keller: "Could we, some critical mass of the species that has trashed the earth, yet recognize it as 'cosmic sanctuary'?" “And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’” It is as though we must yet call God, Messiah, the new cosmopolis down to earth. Their triune "coming” requires our calling them down. In other words, their immanence needs our invitation. Not metaphysically—if what we name divine signifies an infinity, a boundlessness, it is always already everywhere anyway. But apparently this theotopia needs our invitation in order to matter, to materialize, among us. We can no longer separate the life that “comes” from our becoming lives. This new creation won't happen without our desire, our collusion, our...