
@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.

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Advice needed. I am writing two articles for a UK evangelical publication on Creation care/environmentalism and also delivering a young adults talk on the same topic. What kind of things do you think I should include and what issues should I address? Our pivotal challenge? The Christian response remains, by and large, theological. Folks with such as the US farm-seminary movement represent an emergent orthopraxis, but if the Church has a future - no matter how outlandish it sounds - all of us will be getting hands on, shortly. and 3 others The answer which undoes the question? 'The Return of the Gardener King of the New Creation' is contemporary, US evangelical theological vernacular. [See Douglas Green in 'When the Gardener Returns: An Ecological Perspective on Adam's Dominion'.] Earth Inheritance is peaceful. Image with calligraphy reading, "Earth Christ" Subtweet: 1/6 It was John Moriarty, a gardener at the Carmelite priory in Boars Hill, Oxford, who declared, "Jesus is our hero of integration." As he interprets it, the deep ecology of peacemaking effects and requires an integral, intra-realm response to a symbiotic eco-cultural challenge. 1/ The Heaven of Earth, actualized? A unified, bio-cultural simultaneity. Wendell Berry: “You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.” Integral ecology in practice, then? The Resurrection Body of our salvation, made. "Praying is not enough."
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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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