@affinitytalks @TDieppe @HaddenTurner @JubileeCentre We must go further. The Kingdom demands earthbound discipleship, not spectator theology. Jesus the Gardener comes back to return us to creation and to dissolve the world that forgot it—churches and empires alike. The Word must be inhabited, else belief is but betrayal gone pious.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Castillo: "The person whose fundamental disposition is toward serving and caring for creation and who makes this disposition manifest through praxis, this is the fullness of 'homo hortulanus', the image of God. The people of God are called to inhabit the vocation of gardener." 3/ "Supposing him to be the gardener." 'Gardener', 2017, by Katherine Ace, at The Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR, March 11, 2019. 'The Gardener', by Lizzie Riches. 'The Gardener', 2021, by Joel Briggs. 'Garden Queen' by Alla Tsank. Image of Jesus the Eschatological Gardener
@lukeburgis That's exquisite. Bruno Barnhart likewise described the Christ force as an immanent historical dynamism transforming all of created reality. Ultimately, incarnation defines an inbetweenness wherein Reality comes to fullness in us individually and together, at once. We inhabit it.
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