RT @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."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Yasutami Roshi, Thomas Keating and Paula D’Arcy Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1870801535359488337 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Our role, the plot. Yasutami Roshi: "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." Thom Keating: "The fundamental illusion of the human condition is the notion that God is absent." Paula D'Arcy: "God comes to us disguised as our life." t.co/xFl1jG8DC1
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Cynthia Bourgeault and Rumi 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. Bourgeault: “If we are fully present when we read such a narrative, we ourselves experience the liberating power of this awakening. It is both a realm in itself and the means by which this realm makes itself known." Rumi: "When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes." Copy of tweet here: 1/ Perhaps the holy, open secret of God-experience is not its ineffability as much as its closeness. We imagine a divide to be crossed, a calculus to be applied, a somewhere to be found. But what if the primal immediacy of aliveness, of personal experience itself, is made of God?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Elliot Wolfson 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. @aliner "To discover the secret that there is no secret is the ultimate secret that one can neither divulge nor withhold. To see with no veil is to see that there is no seeing without a veil." - E. Wolfson, Messianic Anthropos: Beyond Theopoetic Metaphoricization, Kabbalah & Modernity t.co/dA0gwONAWx
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Open original documentend/ 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.
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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.](/media/1959453018270883856-GzFgIgMbQAAGWlt.jpg)
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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.