@lukeburgis The crisis isn't left and right. It's politics as metaphysical cosplay—brand choreography severed from where meaning has to land. And the polis, famished for transcendence, is fed what? Democracy as pornography: desire circulated without consummation, spirit without incarnation.
@RichardRohrOFM Ungoverned by religion, nor rivaled by politics, incarnation detonates the wall between God and history, inaugurating a new stratum of reality for all to walk in, embodied as the common life of the world—kinship beyond every earthly throne: messianic reign without rule. Live it!
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Copy of tweets here: 9/ Benjamin may find his closest contemporary counterpart in the Iranian, Ali Shari’ati, who similarly affirms that neither politics nor religion alone suffice to furnish the world a means of liberation and redemption involving the fusion of their respective messianic traditions. The New Testament. Cayley: "What is revealed in the New Testament, according to Illich, is a summons beyond all cultural or religious containment." Quote tweet: 4/ Turning the page. "Jesus is not the creator of another religion but the victor over religion. He is not the maker of another law but the conqueror of law. He is the end of religion, above Christianity and non-Christianity." - #PaulTillich