13/ When a previously obscured dimension of truth becomes unavoidably present to embodied awareness, that's not just new content added to an unchanged substrate—a "Media Event." The substrate itself transforms. A transfigured order of reality, being and knowing is revealed.
@ThinkingFaith I've been following those two. What if what fundamentally distinguishes the Second Advent from First is its arrival in history as a 'universal planetary' as distinct from 'local montane' Media Event? The Cloud-borne Total Christ sufficient to the challenge of the global demonic?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1891285776098320626 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @trippfuller 8/ Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin his core theo-political motif encompassing the supreme danger and overwhelming impetus of a totalitarian Death Cult clearly replicating in the monstrous revenant of our time. t.co/RlJETffMdh
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Fintan O’Toole, Walter Benjamin, von Balthasar and Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: And, Fintan O’Toole: "A false notion of greatness must be given a decent burial. If there is really to be a new creation, there must be no doubt that the old world is dead." And Benjamin: “The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he also comes as the vanquisher of Antichrist.” If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the blessing of the new creation in which righteousness and justice dwells"; the solidarity of social and planetary renewal; the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection; 'the best is yet to come.'
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