@CTmagazine end/ Reality is always delivering itself from bondage; we're either midwives or obstacles. The question isn't when redemption comes but how we answer and serve its ever-arriving, ever-abiding advent. Salvation is the moment when waiting reveals itself as the very thing we await.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Peter; Peter's full identity not stated in image Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top Peter reliably Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1956485836268286007 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @NorannV @PeterMommsen Peter's reliably world-class. Yes, as Vogelin avers, there's no forcing, averting or delaying the Day (Q: 16:61). Yet, as Peter says: 'Christian pacifism is eschatological'—that is, to enflesh, practice and announce the Eschaton's arrival is to live and breathe it into being now. t.co/mRKFBM57Db
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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: 11/ To recognize Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1935732271124041802 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 11/ To recognize this moment is not a triumph—it is a wound. A grief born of knowing the Kingdom is here, yet remains unseen, unwelcome, unreceived. This is not a call to abstraction. It is a summons to participation —in what we have long postponed, but can no longer outrun. t.co/Pc5WDfQyqa
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Richard Rohr Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: God finally fully Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “Man-made history is not history's only dimension. History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed.” Abraham Joshua Heschel ⇹ "God is finally and fully on the side of justice and truth. History does have a direction, meaning, and purpose. God is more fundamental than evil. Resurrection will have the final word, which is the very promise of the Jesus event. The eternal wind of the Spirit is with us." Richard Rohr
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Juergen Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: whole parousia card Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Christ's parousia is not a dispensable appendage to the history of Christ. It is the goal of that history, for it is its completion. It is the keystone supporting the whole of christology, and this also makes it the key to the understanding of the history of Christ. Christ's parousia therefore does not merely 'unveil' the salvific meaning of Christ's death. It also, and much more, brings the fulfillment of the whole history of Christ, with all that it promises; for it is only with Christ's parousia that 'the kingdom that shall have no end' begins. Christ's messianic mission would remain incomprehensible if we were not to take into account the future 'Day of the Messiah', the future of the Son of Man, the coming 'Day of the Lord' — which is to say Jesus' parousia in the universal glory of God. His parousia is the fulfillment of his resurrection. That is why this future of Christ does not bring the turn of history 'once more'; it brings it 'once and for all'. Juergen Moltmann
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Juergen Moltmann Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: whole parousia card Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Christ's parousia is not a dispensable appendage to the history of Christ. It is the goal of that history, for it is its completion. It is the keystone supporting the whole of christology, and this also makes it the key to the understanding of the history of Christ. Christ's parousia therefore does not merely 'unveil' the salvific meaning of Christ's death. It also, and much more, brings the fulfillment of the whole history of Christ, with all that it promises; for it is only with Christ's parousia that 'the kingdom that shall have no end' begins. Christ's messianic mission would remain incomprehensible if we were not to take into account the future 'Day of the Messiah', the future of the Son of Man, the coming 'Day of the Lord' — which is to say Jesus' parousia in the universal glory of God. His parousia is the fulfillment of his resurrection. That is why this future of Christ does not bring the turn of history 'once more'; it brings it 'once and for all'. Juergen Moltmann
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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: 5/ What catalyzed Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1932868582825984345 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 5/ What he catalyzed could be called proto-messianic politics—but with no messiah—or rather, the recognition that messianism is not a person but a posture, a grounded mode of living the Real, where the awakened soul in each of us midwives divine justice into the everyday. t.co/Sj9CN0ZFkq
Open original document@trippfuller Greatly treasure your concentrated acuity, brother. What's it to be then? More of the same vanishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality along with the revolutionary renewal in ontological status of humanity and our planet it initiates? What are we waiting for?
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