@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 20/ This is the third way: Not saving the world (arrogance). Not redeeming it (God alone redeems). Not abandoning it (irresponsibility). But a new ontology altogether: Gospel-shaped covenant-keeping as the shape of creaturely existence already caught up in God's redemptive work.
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We were never made to save or change the world - yet this is the burden that universities and the media are putting on our shoulders (esp the young) on all matters (not just environmental). I am going to argue for an explicitly local focus of attention and action. That sounds good. @HaddenTurner and @robertstrivens Yes, Real salvation can't be lived abstractly at a distance, as an '-ism'. The Kingdom comes within reach (only) in assent to the full embrace of the home-maker's, home-field advantage. The attention and action of an habitually habitable love affair. A G(o)od fit, where we stand. “We stand at the point...of entering more fully into our human garment, and of raising everything into a clearer more unified belonging.” - Ronald Beesley Only superficially, then, does ‘home-making’ refer to refining our external attachment to people, place and things, and the broad array of technes supporting the outer forms of settling in. Ultimately, homemaking amounts to accepting a profound invitation to explore the most vital coherence of our senses and thoughts in congruence with the embrace of Nature, striving for a depth where the form of our emerging growth is brought into rhythm with the concealed order of creation. It is, in other words, an invitation to friendship with our own essential nature. Such is the ground of primal affection mediated by Beauty. “The experience of the beautiful,” as Hans-Georg Gadamer describes it, “is the invocation of a potentially whole and holy order of things.” Subtweet: Concrete reality is the covenantal realm in which redemptive time comes to ground. Here, in the intensification of a vital coherence harmonizing the music of our deepest needs and aspirations to a larger symphony of earthly belonging, we and the world resurrect as one.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 12/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1959445714007990738 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 12/ Hence the Kingdom is not escape from matter but matter itself unveiled as the medium of communion or judgment. If empire and entropy are flesh's crucifixion, incarnation is their undoing from within. Flesh is where solidarity is revealed, empire condemned, creation renewed. t.co/cRm10f8c6P
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