end/ This, then, is inaugurated immortality: not endless extension of life as the possession of an isolated mortal self, but participation now in a Life death cannot exhaust—being ripening toward its intended fullness, meaning bearing fruit, resurrection becoming present tense.
@RyanHaecker Dying before death relinquishes the false self, but the messianic path does not end there. It raises our creatureliness through and beyond the form of existence governed by death, so that the eternal life of the age already breaking in, may begin in and among us before the grave.
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Tweet thread here: 3/ We are nature. Not "like" it. Not merely "in" it. Not a will piloting biology. We are microbiome, breath, water, hunger, grief, labour, mortality—creaturely through and through, nature become self-reflective, language-bearing, morally answerable, wounded and wondrous. 4/ But Christianly, that does not reduce us. It deepens us. It is to fully be creation: spoken, gifted, relational, summoned. The image of God is not an escape from creatureliness but a vocation within it—the earth coming to consciousness, praise, care, restraint, justice. Quote tweet: Mary came to mourn matter's defeat. She leaves as the first witness to matter's redemption. The Gardener-King unlocks matter's resurrective capacity, not escape but the whole earth quickened, brought into the life it was made to bear. Planetary parousia completes it. #Easter