@CarlMcColman 3\ Roberts: "Spring is not a date on the calendar. It is infinite and interconnected, not sequential." Dōgen: "Springtime’s passage invariably passes through spring. The passage is not spring, but as it is springtime’s passage, passing attains the Way now in the time of spring."
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Copy of Tweet, Apr 17. 2019 Easter spell. Acrylic inks on paper. #HolyWeek Image - leaf mandala - with calligraphy, reading: Spring is Christ Risen Easter, a Spring Within Us
@Plough In Christ, the communion of saints names a porous veil—eternity not ahead of us after time, nor beyond history, but within it. Not time + eternity bolted, but time taken up into eternity’s intensity: another register of reality. Chronos gathered into kairos. History transfigured.
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Tweet: Curious to what degree you perceive concrete reality as the covenantal realm in which the irruption of a 'new temporality' comes to ground - the interruptive mercy of a messianic ontology yoking the architecture of redemptive time to wholesale, planetary political transformation? end/ ...where Agamben describes “a breakthrough into, not out of, concrete history”; Keller, "a temporality that cannot be controlled and corralled by any institution"; and Moltmann, "neither the future of time, nor timeless eternity...the transcendent breaking-in of eternity". Quote tweet: 1/ Eternity, elsewhere? Apart from now, here? The fullness of time in a moment is an essentially messianic recognition and, with it, concrete reality as the covenantal realm in which redemptive time comes to ground. “Time,” William Blake observes, “is the mercy of eternity.” 2/ “When Jesus proclaims that the kingdom of God is 'at hand', he is not looking into the future in a temporal sense; he is looking into the heaven of the present. The kingdom does not 'come' out of the future into the present. It comes from heaven to earth..." #juergenmoltmann Painting of cross with calligraphy: One Heaven. One Earth. One Now. The messianic interpretation of the experience of the moment that ends & gathers up time is 'the redemption of the future' from the power of history. The eschaton, neither the future of time, nor timeless eternity, is God's coming and arrival. - Moltmann
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