@lukeburgis 5/ To see with eyes that outlast death is to experience the self that violence protects as vain. Nonviolence then isn't self-sacrifice but deeper recognition of a truer identity, transfigured and united beneath a fleeting dream of separation; the immortal life breaking through.
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Copy of tweet here: 2/ I find a further dimension central, crucial; namely, as Adorno describes it, “Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption...” The experience of the redemption of the future from the power of history as a motivating principle in concrete reality, here, now. 3/ In the messianic light, humility, patience, forgiveness, the entire treasury of eternal graces, are perfected as the Tibetans say, in projecting the perspective through and beyond the death experience. Perhaps this is what it is to become immortal, in this realm of existence.
@BrianZahnd @dljones555 1/2 The realistic condition? Non-retaliation, the supernal pivot upon which the world, through us, returns to love. Moltmann: "The suffering of this love is the most fruitful and most liberating power." N. Brown: “The thing then, is not to abolish war, but to find the true war.”
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@ nick_routledge @RichardRohrOFM and @CACRadicalGrace 1/2 “Love of our enemies is the sunrise of life, and the realistic condition for the survival of humanity. We have been the enemies of our enemies long enough. In the discipleship of Jesus we experience the liberating power of love, love that is quite literally disarming...” Quote tweet: Jul 27, 2021s God's love seeks the enemy and is perfected in the enemy. If it were not for this, none of us could talk about God's love at all.