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end/ Incarnation is not metaphor but embodied apocalypse: history’s judgment and creation’s rebirth. This is the eschaton: love blazing through soil and species, body and polis, networks and nations—our own flesh and the flesh of the world, revealed as the medium of divine law.

Copy of tweet and image here: 3/[edit] I suggest that deep incarnation can be understood, theologically, to act at the boundary of creation and new creation, where Christ enters into human, evolutionary and ecological history in a profound way so that through the living presence of the Holy Spirit...deep incarnation should be understood not so much as the spatial descent of God into creation, or even the ontological extension of Christ into creation, but most profoundly as the transformative and dramatic movement of God in Christ, who takes centre stage in the theo-drama...accompanied by the active presence of the Holy Spirit, so that deep incarnation can be envisaged as an aspect of pneumatology as much as of Christology, an eschatological vision of glory. Here we find pneumatology in the space between creation and re-creation, in the creation as it is now and in the promised eschatological hope where God will be all in all.
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Copy of tweet and image here: 3/[edit] I suggest that deep incarnation can be understood, theologically, to act at the boundary of creation and new creation, where Christ enters into human, evolutionary and ecological history in a profound way so that through the living presence of the Holy Spirit...deep incarnation should be understood not so much as the spatial descent of God into creation, or even the ontological extension of Christ into creation, but most profoundly as the transformative and dramatic movement of God in Christ, who takes centre stage in the theo-drama...accompanied by the active presence of the Holy Spirit, so that deep incarnation can be envisaged as an aspect of pneumatology as much as of Christology, an eschatological vision of glory. Here we find pneumatology in the space between creation and re-creation, in the creation as it is now and in the promised eschatological hope where God will be all in all.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 May 2025

@cac_abq How about an honest response to Franciscan sister and theologian Ilia Delio? "If God has already come to us, what are we waiting for? If God has already become incarnate in Jesus what are we waiting for?"

Copy of tweet here: end/ "If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." - MLK, 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' "Jesus was calling for a radical disruption of his religion, a great spiritual migration. A similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion that names itself after Him. - McLaren
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Copy of tweet here: end/ "If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." - MLK, 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' "Jesus was calling for a radical disruption of his religion, a great spiritual migration. A similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion that names itself after Him. - McLaren

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Quoted by@tenshi_anna @RyanHaecker A thoughtful list—thank you. I wonder, though, if its pattern reveals not just an historical omission but an epistemic and constitutive bias—perhaps even quietly docetic: theology that begins at a remove from the flesh of the world, unlike, say, Keller, Delio, Deane-Drummond…Quoted by@lukeburgis end/ From Girard's insight that justice is epistemically fraught, we arrive at incarnational certainty—not a verdict of closure but the disclosure of being, reality taking flesh wherever communities enact repair, justifying what retribution cannot provide: existence reconciled.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RobertEllsberg @OrbisBooks 5/ If Panikkar distilled incarnational hermaneutics in one line, perhaps it is, "The method is the very reality which the method helps to disclose"—a blindness so self-referential, we can't see it: "For a truly cross-cultural understanding, we need a new revelatory experience."Quoted by@RobertEllsberg @OrbisBooks 5/ If Panikkar distilled incarnational hermaneutics in one line, perhaps it is, "The method is the very reality which the method helps to disclose"—a blindness so self-referential, we can't see it: "For a truly cross-cultural understanding, we need a new revelatory experience."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @HaddenTurner Once again, I'm working out of Sheep Ranch, CA, where sheep roam freely throughout the hamlet, one of the very few "free-range" areas in Cali. I'm deep in the wooded wildlands, though. Hereabouts, deep incarnation integrates bear, cougar and livestock-guardian dog-breeds.Quoted by@HaddenTurner Once again, I'm working out of Sheep Ranch, CA, where sheep roam freely throughout the hamlet, one of the very few "free-range" areas in Cali. I'm deep in the wooded wildlands, though. Hereabouts, deep incarnation integrates bear, cougar and livestock-guardian dog-breeds.