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@Plough @BenQuash 5/ There's a central Christic principle at work here: only the Kingdom gives access to Paradise, but only Paradise renders the Kingdom fully concrete. This isn't metaphorical language. It describes the actual pattern through which divine life becomes incarnate in earth-reality.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Aug 2024

Day Four. As such, Paradise-with-a-home-address embraces a functionally indigenous dynamism, and its completion of a co-evolutionary circuit freeing us to an empirical Earth-bound life of transcendent fullness, promise and ultimate participation in the very body of our salvation.

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Quoted by@seenunseenmag @profntwright 3/ We are nature. Not "like" it. Not merely "in" it. Not a will piloting biology. We are microbiome, breath, water, hunger, grief, labour, mortality—creaturely through and through, nature become self-reflective, language-bearing, morally answerable, wounded and wondrous.Quoted by@HaddenTurner @JubileeCentre end\ God’s Day names judgment-as-purification: “refiner’s fire,” not “cosmic arson.” What burns is falsehood—and all ideologies and sacred stories that live off it. Christ's parousia doesn’t end creation; it ends the false world, the regime of lies, so what is true can remain.Quoted by@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 3/ But I also wonder whether the cure for false substitution is not withdrawal into spectator theology, but a thicker inaugurated eschatology—one that refuses both the Pelagian autonomy of self-salvation and the Gnostic passivity of disembodied piety; or plain, escapist denial.