@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 23/ Milk flowing, bees thriving: these aren't symbols of the Kingdom accomplished elsewhere. They're redemption's very texture, arriving here, through hands that have learned the difference between mastery and midwifery, between building Babel and planting Eden forward into time.
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17/ The last word is mercy, not judgment; communion, not dominion. Justice and peace kiss on earth; righteousness and beauty rise together. The resurrective template of New World Creation reveals the emergent solidarity of one breath, one body, transfigured. Coincidentally, no matter the limitless network of significance of McLuhan’s ‘global village’, any 'individual' attempt to give the prophetic “a local habitation and a name” will proceed only in so far as its unifying articulation is somatically and inalienably attuned to… ...the genius of a particularized habitat, the intricate harmony of an integrative coming to wholeness embracing 1, and just 1, locale. The prophetic eco-village is, in other words, singularly defined by a shared face and a parochial limit. So much for the individual of a savior. Yes, the prophetic net must needs be cast at the societal or institutional level - the grandstand of life. Yet there also comes a time - our own era - when the individual prophetic life must be felt and lived in the realm of the immediate, proximate and local. 'Going local' isn't simply an effect and requirement of transformation of our dominant institutions and epistemologies in the image of a truly sustainable, planetary intelligence, but also for justice, for earthly and human solidarity, to ground and secure ontological purchase. In a very real sense, the 'prophetic earthwork' movement amounts to just such a phenomenon, establishing a path into the fully incarnational life which rests, restores and reinvigorates ourselves, the planet and the expression of the Beautiful, in the same breath… ...reprojecting prophetic radicalism upon a novel, trans-cultural, world-historical plane, in which social and planetary renewal, the co-creative ecologies of green-blooded & red-blooded realms, meet, interweave and mutually synergize in a single helix of Presence. Ultimately, human incarnation, fully-enfleshed, is simultaneously Earth Epiphany; and world-resurrection, the 'in-breaking of Spirit in our time', the heaven of Earth made manifest. Here and now, in this realm of existence, We and the Earth heal, as One.
Open original document@tenshi_anna @RyanHaecker A thoughtful list—thank you. I wonder, though, if its pattern reveals not just an historical omission but an epistemic and constitutive bias—perhaps even quietly docetic: theology that begins at a remove from the flesh of the world, unlike, say, Keller, Delio, Deane-Drummond…
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