11/ That is, the “fourth wall” that breaks is not only between doctrine and world, text and reader. It’s the wall that keeps theology innocent. Any apocalypse that spares the seer is propaganda, spectacle, purge, or priestcraft. Revelation is cruciform reality unsealed. It costs.
'He is Risen'? So what, if our essential, everyday allegiance rejects the costly obedience of messianic identity for the cheap grace of a religious science of containment. Are our days faithful to the cruciform messiahship of Jesus, or have we betrayed His resurrection?
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ Someone needs to say it: we have made of Jesus an idol. This hocus-pocus of false shepherds, our cartoon caricature of the Incarnation (“a sort of constant triumphal story” as @stewartdantec names it) effectively banishes the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality. Quote tweet: "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage.