RT @nick_routledge: @RichardRohrOFM I've never accepted Cynthia's mantric insistence that Jesus as wisdom teacher demands denying his messianic call and character. WWJS, after all? Lk. 4:24, 13:3/5, 13:33; Jn. 7:16–18; Mk. 1:15; Mt 4:17. The Kingdom hermaneutic surpasses such categorical limits.
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Copy of tweet and image here. Some posts one immediately regrets. Saying 'his' instead of 'their' I picked up on immediately. I typically let my mistakes stand, however, even where they make me uncomfortable. I'm delighted for the chance to correct my offense by now remaking the image as truer to my sentiment and that, I feel, of language in the image of God.
@lukeburgis The danger, of course, is swapping one form of entanglement for another—mimicry in new robes. The real wound is deeper—a mimetic architecture of violence so embedded, so internalized, it poses as reality itself. The messianic rends the veil. What history forgets, glory reveals.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 2/ #RenéGirard: "Jesus is not there in order to stress once again in his own person the unified violence of the sacred; he is not there to ordain and govern like Moses..." · 3/ #RenéGirard: "...he is not there to unite a people around him, to forge its unity in the crucible of rites and prohibitions, but on the contrary, to turn this long page of human history once and for all."