
@RxOnlyFL @cognazor 'He is Risen’? So what, if our everyday allegiance forsakes the costly obedience of messianic identity for the very powers and principalities Jesus came to exorcise. Loisy saw the counterfeit: “Jesus announced the Kingdom, but it was the Church that arrived.” Come out of her.

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Illich reliable, here. With the Constantinian concession, we could be authentically 'born again' _and_ be possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end - the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by the vast array of institutions and epistemologies they epistemically secure. There is a joke in which Satan is talking with one of his fallen angels while looking at the foibles of humans on the earth. “What should we do?” implores the helper. “See there, a human has gotten hold of a piece of truth!” Unperturbed, the Prince of Darkness replies, “Don’t worry, these humans will try to institutionalize it, and then it will belong to us again.” Echoes likewise in Illich, whose leading thesis is that Western modernity represents a perverted attempt to encode and institutionalize the NT's principles as rules of behavior, duty, and laws in a corrupting structural deception so pervasive that we no longer realize it’s there.

@kuchiroma1979 @Plough @IsaacNelsonX17 John 10:10 states it. Embody the Way and we become more fully tethered to the immanent historical dynamism of a theo-drama transforming all of created reality, and to a harvest of meaning surpassing the experiential poverty that fails to explain the very engagement it longs for.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, six pictured bodies including Girard quotation Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1948823441051635866 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. John 10:10 states it. Embody the Way and we become more fully tethered to the immanent historical dynamism of a theo-drama transforming all of created reality, and to a harvest of meaning surpassing the experiential poverty that fails to explain the very engagement it longs for. 1/ No wonder the advent of a global, moral fusion movement remains occulted to mindsets defined by political and religious parochialism. Its version of perception and liberating activity so fully casts irrelevancy upon dominative secular and religious worldviews. 2/ In practice, seeing through a catastrophically diminished self-image of materialist and religious fetishism opens us to a life superseding the draconian limitations of a conventional way of processing reality constricted to a shadow of its co-creative powers and potential. 9/ Please don’t let self-appointed cultural arbiters blindly & unwaveringly invested in a caricature of realism, fool you, friends. Simply because most of us have succumbed to a vast, culturally-commanded dark night of sleep, doesn’t make this, Our Paradigm Shift, any less Real. 10/ Yes, away from the levels of reality well-lit by ‘the Expert State’, beyond the turmoil, controversy, bewilderment and totalizing freefall of a dominative epistemology and all that it sustains and disfigures in our eyes, our common Story evolves. Surely, you've heard? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) end/ Modernity? An isolated, isolating, fiercely constructed and constricted Story, predisposing us to the madness of a control complex gone mad for the illusion of separateness. Elsewhere? A horizon of hope and its earth-bound promise of planetary resurrection into eternal life. Quote tweet: 31/ The Kingdom is not a fixed arrival but an intensification of presence. This is the eschaton as co-creation: not spectacle to behold, but fidelity enfleshed. The Reign of God arises not from ideology, but from entangled communion. Incarnational integration in motion
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