@PageauJonathan 18/ This is not heroic. It is sacrificial. Not in the sense of loss, but in becoming a site of meaning-transference. The prophet takes on the world’s dissonance and metabolizes it into relational depth. This is both mystical and political. Interior and systemic.
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Copy of tweet here: There's more. Conscience, a universal human endowment, is the supernatural virtue of authenticity in the domain of thought, a vector of divine presence and purpose, and an embodied conduit whereby divine guidance infuses and transforms history and reality in its co-creative lure. Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: We can go further. In effect, the conscience-driven life defines an activated suprapersonal, suprahistorical power and intelligence whereby God becomes 'intercarnational' (Catherine Keller) as 'an immanent historical dynamism transforming all of created reality' (Bruno Barnhart)
@Plough @myleswerntz 3/ To paraphrase Heschel, “We cannot deal with violence unless we deal with all of man, the nature of existence, of doing, and meaning." And yes, this will demand a realpolitik of facing terror with reckless love, for however long it takes, no matter the assaults or dangers.
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