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@Plough 2/ Faith is the territory. What Jesus came to teach was an experiential crossing—access to mystery, intelligence, power, telos—arriving not as doctrine but as immanent Kingdom. Faith is not belief refined, but reality opened. Enacted, it opens upon a different order of being.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 31 Mar 2025

@lukeburgis Well, that's the joyless for you, isn't it? Bloch identified Christian cultural denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the Living God among us, here and now, as, in effect, functional atheism. Niffari, in précis: "Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!"

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Quoted by3/ God becomes belief, doctrine, explanation, hope or destination: something affirmed about reality rather than encountered in reality. Perhaps the deeper problem is not merely what we believe about God, but what we have come to mean by reality itself.