6/ Here apocalyptic theology stops being analysis of reality and becomes entry into reality. Not because theology is scrapped, but because its alibi is. The gospel isn’t owned, curated, or explained from a safe distance; if you enter as master, you falsify what you unveil.
@cac_abq Gandhi noted satyagraha connects human action with divine truth. The principle finds its fullest realization in a messianic mode—an incarnational theophany of unequivocally supernatural calibration aligning with an immanent historical dynamism transforming all of created reality.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Bonhoeffer Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: top1/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1754530473966231763 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Dan_Bowdoin 1/ I'm shocked by the text's first words (Bonhoeffer: "Honesty demands that we recognize that we must live in the world as if there were no God.") in the face of a transcendence immediately, totally, fully and indivisibly present and accessible here, now. t.co/bDltyS5ub4
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge referencing Schleiermacher Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Indeed Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1697985192747520330 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BrianZahnd Indeed, I'd aver Schleiermacher's 'cultured despisers' of religion describes 'religious' as much as 'non-religious' dismissal of Reality as fully, supernaturally here. Incarnation, a participatory threshold defined by passing over from God-belief into God-experience itself, then? t.co/RjZ2vVlTsS
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Aṭṭār @noonessleep Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: two Jul11 posts Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Excerpt from tweet thread: Aṭṭār Christians who somehow manage to reconcile their faith with the sort of complacent, sneering scientism one would normally expect of a strident atheist or secular humanist are very puzzling. I had in mind smug dismissals of notions of enchantment (or, in a Barfieldian register, original participation). There's something genuinely bizarre about being at once a Christian and someone who thinks a participatory ontology is woo woo.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Cynthia Bourgeault Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2/ We resurrect Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1474434779994996740 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 2/ We resurrect as transmutation, the simultaneous, dynamic conjunction of the Divine One and the affirmation of the moving constraint of our mortality. “It is both a realm in itself and the means by which this realm makes itself known." - Cynthia Bourgeault. t.co/ic9iOEcOKG
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Niffari and referring to Bloch Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1/3 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1474170398442811404 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/3 Where Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asks, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!", Ernst Bloch identified the functional atheism of dominative Christian culture’s denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the living God among us, right here, right now. t.co/Q3ISRZmS4v
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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: bottom Where Xian Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1465320102568497157 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nickripatrazone @poetinbabylon Where Xian theological sanction has effectively decried messianology as "the hobby of religious cranks" (Moltmann), perhaps it’s time to adventitiously ask, what does realized Christology mean, if not the Second Advent? Fingers and toes? Or the kingdom of peace in a new creation?
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