Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @AimeTim

@AimeTim 1/3 The Church of England report goes impressively far. It receives @profntwright’s landmark Bible-centered correction to the global Church and, as visionary theology recovering Christian hope for an age of ecological crisis, it's beautiful, necessary and timely.

1/24 The church has spent centuries imagining salvation as departure. 's great gift is breaking that spell. What the New Testament actually announces is not souls leaving earth for heaven, but creation renewed; a transfigured world. The correction changes everything. There's always the definitive birth of a new world creation. In this realm. Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. It serves the new creation of all things. It is therefore not last but penultimate. What is the last and final is the new word of creation. (Rev. 21.5)" Immanence isn’t a stage to transcend. It is the very ground where redemption takes shape as eternity breaks into history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is why the Resurrection—body and all, earth included—is the messianic scandal. The Kingdom comes through materiality, not despite it.
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1/24 The church has spent centuries imagining salvation as departure. 's great gift is breaking that spell. What the New Testament actually announces is not souls leaving earth for heaven, but creation renewed; a transfigured world. The correction changes everything. There's always the definitive birth of a new world creation. In this realm. Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. It serves the new creation of all things. It is therefore not last but penultimate. What is the last and final is the new word of creation. (Rev. 21.5)" Immanence isn’t a stage to transcend. It is the very ground where redemption takes shape as eternity breaks into history.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is why the Resurrection—body and all, earth included—is the messianic scandal. The Kingdom comes through materiality, not despite it.