@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 12/ Any theology—or any religion—that can’t bind redemption to the conditions of creaturely life commits a foundational existential error: trying to rescue humans _from_ the world, instead of learning how the world (and our life within it) is what holds us to account.
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Alt-text excerpt from Plough Quarterly: Jesus Is Coming – Plant a Tree! In the new creation, the ancient human mandate to look after the garden is dramatically reaffirmed. By N. T. Wright This article first appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Plough. … This doesn’t mean that we are called to build the kingdom by our own efforts, or even with the help of the Spirit. The final kingdom, when it comes, will be the free gift of God, a massive act of grace and new creation. But we are called to build for the kingdom. Like craftsmen working on a great cathedral, we have each been given instructions about the particular stone we are to spend our lives carving, without knowing or being able to guess where it will take its place within the grand design. We are assured, by the words of Paul and by Jesus’ resurrection as the launch of that new creation, that the work we do is not in vain. That says it all. That is the mandate we need for every act of justice and mercy, every program of ecology, every effort to reflect God’s wise stewardly image into his creation. In the new creation, the ancient human mandate to look after the garden is dramatically reaffirmed – another point we could draw out of John 20 were there time. The resurrection of Jesus is the reaffirmation of the goodness of creation, and the gift of the Spirit is there to make us the fully human beings we were supposed to be, precisely so that we can fulfill that mandate at last. What are we waiting for? Jesus is coming. Let’s go and plant those trees.
Open original document@NatureSchoolSU For complicated reasons, well grasped, religious folk have been slow out of the blocks on this one. That said, the Xian theologian #NTWright, a global, path-forging pillar for the 'New World Creation' imperative, is saying what, just now? "Jesus is coming. Plant a tree!" @Plough
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Copy of tweet here: Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. What is last and final is the blessing of the new creation in which righteousness and justice dwells"; the solidarity of social and planetary renewal; the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection; 'the best is yet to come.' Image of cross. Calligraphy: One Heaven. One Earth. One Now. 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.