21/ Paul is explicit: “the word of the cross is foolishness” and “we are fools for Christ.” The crucified God appears as madness to the powers precisely because He absorbs the world’s violence without returning it and dares to name that gesture the wisdom of God.
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Copy of tweet: 1/7 The hermaneutic, deeply vexing, though, isn't it? How on earth do we sensibly communicate an experience of the staggering meaningfulness and plenitude of a Depth Realm conceived and experienced only through an obedience to love turning the world upside down? (Acts 17:6)
@RizomaSchool 7/ And the fruit is recognizable: those with least to shield themselves often carry the most uncontrived mercy, the most grounded courage, the most truthful care, resilience that isn’t bravado. These are not the spoils of deprivation but the surplus of a different order of being.
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5\ The scandal is this: what the demonic complex trains us to treat as “unreal”—mercy, enemy-love, gratuitous forgiveness, shared bread—are concrete sites where another sovereignty is operative, the Kingdom already here as counter-environment: the deeper order present yet unread.