@HaddenTurner @JubileeCentre 2/ Mimetic lock-in cannot be argued down: it yields to Revelation—what can’t survive light burns off. New World Creation comes both through truth laid bare at scale—illumination by which nations learn righteousness—and, as you often insist, by neighborly-love made concrete.
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21/ Which brings us back to your manifesto naming the ontological scandal that redeemed humans are makers again—not of salvation (that's done) but of new world creation. Not escape from matter but participation in the actual site where God's future inhabits the present. The latest Social Issues Bulletin is available. This edition, with articles by @TDieppe @HaddenTurner and @JubileeCentre's Dr Paul Mills, examines the complex relationship between evangelical faith and environmental concerns. It also includes a review of the latest bioethical concerns by Dr Calum MacKellar. Dive in at We must go further. The Kingdom demands earthbound discipleship, not spectator theology. Jesus the Gardener comes back to return us to creation and to dissolve the world that forgot it—churches and empires alike. The Word must be inhabited, else belief is but betrayal gone pious. Subtweet: 15/ The New World Creation arrives as this intensification—truth becomes livable, goodness becomes visible, love becomes concrete. This is beauty as telos: not decoration but destination, the signature of reality aligning with its deepest orientation toward God.
Open original document@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 16/ Which is why faithful earthcare is redeemed creatureliness in practice. Not symbolically. Literally. Bodies need food. Soil needs tending. Animals need sheltering. The Kingdom doesn’t arrive despite these facts—it arrives through faithfulness to them.
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Copy of tweet thread: Finally, seeing as all truth is God's truth, no issue should be seen as immediately irrelevant/not worth a thorough treatment by Christians - though these should obviously be some form of strict prioritisation as to what issues are worthy of our time/an extensive consideration.@nick_routledge The 'messianic' or 'paradise gardening' movement fits the bill, addressing everything from the Christological dimensions of modern landrace breeding, to universalizing the Logos from such immediate, localizing, inter-carnational particulars at the planetary epistemological level.