@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 18/ This is where "the necessity for good work" stops being mere agrarian pragmatism and becomes central to the public form of redeemed creatureliness. Good work isn't what saves the world. God redeems. But good work is what covenant-keeping looks like when the Kingdom breaks in.
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6/ The primordial beginning and the eschatological future collapse into each other in the present through what Catherine Keller calls "intercarnational" presence—God becoming immanent through conscience-driven, cruciform participation that restructures what we name the Real. 7/ Jesus, we say, embodies this completely. As John Moriarty understood, he’s our "hero of integration"—not in the sense of abstract theological reconciliation, but as grounded unity made flesh, love taking ecological form in materiality fully inhabited by divine life.
@Plough @BenQuash 8/ In how He lived and what He did, in His embodied life and concrete actions, divine and human, spirit and matter, justice and ecology, Paradise and Kingdom meet and kiss. Resurrection doesn't transcend materiality; its earth reality made luminous from within.
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