4/ Here, history and incarnation converge—not as abstract solidarity but as embodied radiance. The stakes are clear: incarnation is not neutral, it is partisan. Revelation takes flesh in concrete reality. Redemptive time is the form in which its political stakes are disclosed.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Plough Quarterly quoting David Bentley Hart Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1959440417185042845 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Plough Quarterly "It should never be forgotten that Christianity entered human history not as a new creed or sapiential path or system of religious observances, but as apocalypse:" 👀#DavidBentleyHart Tradition and Disruption | Plough From plough.com 3:27 AM · Sep 12, 2023 · 1,040 Views 1 1 7 2
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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/1865081338728190142 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough 1/3 It pays to acknowledge our littleness, perhaps. Reality far transcends Christian enclosure. The second, as first, advent announces an ontic novelty incontestably more generous than the momentum of social, cultic or political associations - indeed, of temporality itself. t.co/ihGxVcCiOi
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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/1865421681201905797 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough 2/ Take a look around. Denial is no barrier from the concrete reality of a Reckoning, nor from a revolutionary renewal in the ontological status of humanity and our planet effected in an all-in-all metamorphosis extending the movement of God, in and through Christ, into creation. t.co/WDXL6C3xyS
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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/1865653137501282419 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough end/ The movement of life and history as a unitive incarnation? Evolution and Presence as one? The conversational ecology of Spirit correlating with the future? A dynamic theophany of calibration? Faith. Whatever we call it, the path is made by walking. May the Force be with you. t.co/qsgTnQ5h59
Open original document19/ The Cloud Event isn't news of the rupture—it IS the rupture. The medium itself becomes the messianic message, reality’s own channel overturning the trajectory that claimed to define the future—time itself breaking open into the reign that remakes all things.
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