
@Plough @BenQuash 16/ Justice isn't adjacent to beauty—it's beauty's public expression, what beauty looks like in social and ecological form when inner conversion and outer repair converge into coherence. When relations align, the world doesn't just become more ethical; it becomes more luminous.

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and Gutierrez: "History is one." The reality of prophetic earthwork, as such? A fully-enfleshed unicity of salvation, liberation and care of creation constituting the dynamic, integral ecology of deep incarnation, on the move. The Kingdom through, with and on the Earth, in practice. @WelshRev and @HaddenTurner Surprise, Illich avers, is the structure of messianic experience. Checking in with fundamentally Christian homesteaders/farmers/regenerative designers gifts us a wellspring of graced testaments to the manifest fullness, richness and plenitude of New World Creation in practice. Reality-based, practical metaphysics going deeper? Perfect poetry, isn't it? If we have a future, it'll be integral and regenerative - the Wedding of Heaven and Earth, and Earth and Heaven and, at its dynamic, loving heart, marriage and family togethered as an Edenic love affair. Subtweet: 1/2 Dan Castillo is most valuable in clarifying how Francis’ concept of integral ecology “maps onto the levels of liberation delineated by Gutiérrez, while expanding the breadth of concern proper to integral liberation by also encompassing a preferential option for the earth.” We must go further. As such, the advent of the 'prophetic earthwork' movement as a bio-composite communion or convivium of land-based service work. To recalibrate or reintegrate Illich: “The kingdom is an eco-social reality at a transcendental level." I suspect geologian Thomas Berry would paint that as a classic case of 'anthropocentric autism' - a religious compass thoroughly divorced from grounding in Nature's harmony, proportions, integrity and, yes, concretized Christification. Faith profoundly unhinged. Xianity lite. Castillo: "Integral liberation cannot be separated from the process of integral communion." Ellen Davis: "The threefold communion with God, neighbor, and earth properly constitutes Christified space." We are called, in other words, to the salvation of "an ecological conversion." —---------------------- []
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@HaddenTurner Hence, the anthropogenic dynamism of New World Creation - the deep ecology of peacemaking effecting and requiring an integral, intra-realm response to a symbiotic eco-cultural challenge. Jim Wallis: "Jesus didn’t say, “Blessed are the peace-lovers.” He said, “peace-makers".
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