Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @CTmagazine

@CTmagazine @jeff_bilbro 1/12 I recall Thomas Berry’s injunction to put the Bible on the shelf for 20 years. His shock therapy was the claim that scripture had itself become a disjunction between Christians and the primary text—the living universe—leaving a people sealed against reality’s deeper summons.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @LamaSuryaDas I just heard @RichardRohrOFM make a resonant denominational observation: the Incarnation made matter theologically consequential, and Catholics had 1,500 years before the arrival of the printing press and Protestantism’s immense emphasis on word-centered religious consciousness.Quoted by@LamaSuryaDas I just heard @RichardRohrOFM make a resonant denominational observation: the Incarnation made matter theologically consequential, and Catholics had 1,500 years before the arrival of the printing press and Protestantism’s immense emphasis on word-centered religious consciousness.Quoted by@Plough 4/ Berry, for example, deepens rather than diminishes the theological concern raised in this essay. Moore largely treats bible reading as personal-spiritual and ecclesial: Berry pushes toward the civilizational, ontological and cosmological conditions shaping perception itself.