1/17 In a world unraveling through collapse, escalation, and acceleration, incarnation returns—not as ornament, old metaphysical puzzle, or past tense, but as eschatological hinge: a sunburst of revelation fracturing time and irradiating the world.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Richard Rohr 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: Richard Rohr Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up.
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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/1532143676960321536 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM In reality, it didn't take long at all for 'the Church' to effectively forsake messianic ontology for a religious science of containment. No matter. The involvement of God in history isn't a concept: no religion or system can own the visible and carnal presence of the God-force.
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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/1532146781189918720 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM Clearly, if we have a future, there's a choice to be made. What's it to be, then? A suicidal cataclysm of materialist and religious fetishism, or the world-renewing truth of the Messiah's example and message? The irrecusable catastrophe of the false sacred, or a fresh start?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, two closing bodies 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. Excerpt from tweet thread here: Clearly, if we have a future, there's a choice to be made. What's it to be, then? A suicidal cataclysm of materialist and religious fetishism, or the world-renewing truth of the Messiah's example and message? The irrecusable catastrophe of the false sacred, or a fresh start? Some might have us believe otherwise, but the incarnational life isn't rocket science. Rather, a wholly democratic social experience universally accessible through a workaday adventure reconciling and reinvigorating ourselves, the Earth and the Beautiful, in the same breath. The messianic era? Coming home to the transcendent fullness of empirical Earth-bound life, effectively completing a co-evolutionary circuit freeing us to a planetary realm of measureless, enfolded, promise and potential. A new world co-creation, in this realm of existence.
Open original document@ncolloff @jonmsweeney @litpress @MonkfishBookPub Indeed, no less than integral ontology of New World Creation, simultaneously individuated and fully incarnational.
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