@CTmagazine 6/ This question exposes the deeper grain: Are we simply enduring the interminable suspension between meaning and meaninglessness, between the promise of intelligibility and its perpetual deferral, or does this waiting possess its own form of revelation, agency and purpose?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 8/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1891285776098320626 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @trippfuller 8/ Though his primary theological referent was Jewish messianism, Christian eschatology provided Benjamin his core theo-political motif encompassing the supreme danger and overwhelming impetus of a totalitarian Death Cult clearly replicating in the monstrous revenant of our time. t.co/RlJETffMdh Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Exhortation on its own is never enough", "reason": "Quoted author is not named in image; addressee ThinkingFaith alone does not establish authorship. Exact text is saved."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Fintan O'Toole and Benjamin Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And Fintan Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here: And, Fintan O’Toole: "A false notion of greatness must be given a decent burial. If there is really to be a new creation, there must be no doubt that the old world is dead." And Benjamin: “The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he also comes as the vanquisher of Antichrist." If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the blessing of the new creation in which righteousness and justice dwells"; the solidarity of social and planetary renewal; the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection; 'the best is yet to come.' Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Exhortation on its own is never enough", "reason": "Quoted author is not named in image; addressee ThinkingFaith alone does not establish authorship. Exact text is saved."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting von Balthasar Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: If I may interject Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet, image and quote tweet here: And, Fintan O’Toole: "A false notion of greatness must be given a decent burial. If there is really to be a new creation, there must be no doubt that the old world is dead." And Benjamin: “The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he also comes as the vanquisher of Antichrist." If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the blessing of the new creation in which righteousness and justice dwells"; the solidarity of social and planetary renewal; the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection; 'the best is yet to come.' Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Exhortation on its own is never enough", "reason": "Quoted author is not named in image; addressee ThinkingFaith alone does not establish authorship. Exact text is saved."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Moltmann Judgment Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1733860878934757426 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TimMiddleton1 @AimeTim @hannahmmalcolm @c_trombinthomas @FPMalcolm @RR_Alemu @ARanawana25 @eliamaggang @JennyStazicker @CarolKingstonS1 @Coruscate_C @Natasha_Chawla @petebenleith @adamjotaylor @davidmmlewis @rathiulung @RobinParry @JessGraceScott @RevAlisonWalker Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the blessing of the new creation in which righteousness and justice dwells"; the solidarity of social and planetary renewal; the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection; 'the best is yet to come.' t.co/evahmorg2b Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Exhortation on its own is never enough", "reason": "Quoted author is not named in image; addressee ThinkingFaith alone does not establish authorship. Exact text is saved."}]
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting an unnamed source Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Never again Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1883907821970075794 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ThinkingFaith 'Never again!'? "Exhortation on its own is never enough, firstly, because it is always partial, reflecting the moral superiority of the powerful, and, more importantly, because it fails to take account of the possibility of moral collapse." Systemic Abrahamic collapse, in fact. t.co/WNe6eyR3ZM Retained uncertainty: [{"passage": "Exhortation on its own is never enough", "reason": "Quoted author is not named in image; addressee ThinkingFaith alone does not establish authorship. Exact text is saved."}]
Open original document@kuchiroma1979 @Plough @IsaacNelsonX17 John 10:10 states it. Embody the Way and we become more fully tethered to the immanent historical dynamism of a theo-drama transforming all of created reality, and to a harvest of meaning surpassing the experiential poverty that fails to explain the very engagement it longs for.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, six pictured bodies including Girard quotation Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1948823441051635866 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. John 10:10 states it. Embody the Way and we become more fully tethered to the immanent historical dynamism of a theo-drama transforming all of created reality, and to a harvest of meaning surpassing the experiential poverty that fails to explain the very engagement it longs for. 1/ No wonder the advent of a global, moral fusion movement remains occulted to mindsets defined by political and religious parochialism. Its version of perception and liberating activity so fully casts irrelevancy upon dominative secular and religious worldviews. 2/ In practice, seeing through a catastrophically diminished self-image of materialist and religious fetishism opens us to a life superseding the draconian limitations of a conventional way of processing reality constricted to a shadow of its co-creative powers and potential. 9/ Please don’t let self-appointed cultural arbiters blindly & unwaveringly invested in a caricature of realism, fool you, friends. Simply because most of us have succumbed to a vast, culturally-commanded dark night of sleep, doesn’t make this, Our Paradigm Shift, any less Real. 10/ Yes, away from the levels of reality well-lit by ‘the Expert State’, beyond the turmoil, controversy, bewilderment and totalizing freefall of a dominative epistemology and all that it sustains and disfigures in our eyes, our common Story evolves. Surely, you've heard? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) end/ Modernity? An isolated, isolating, fiercely constructed and constricted Story, predisposing us to the madness of a control complex gone mad for the illusion of separateness. Elsewhere? A horizon of hope and its earth-bound promise of planetary resurrection into eternal life. Quote tweet: 31/ The Kingdom is not a fixed arrival but an intensification of presence. This is the eschaton as co-creation: not spectacle to behold, but fidelity enfleshed. The Reign of God arises not from ideology, but from entangled communion. Incarnational integration in motion
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