@NWirzba @ChristianCent 4/ Crucially, this is no blood-and-soil particularism. Place isn't possession from which relation proceeds; it is constituted by relations—ecological, creaturely, historical, divine—that precede and exceed us. Incarnation hallows the particular without making an idol of it.
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end\ The new creation has no borders, no national proprietor, no religious franchise. It enters through the particular and exceeds every particular. That is the only answer to religious nationalism worth making, and it is not ours to make, only to receive and inhabit.
2/ A hospitable eschatology therefore conceives New World Creation as differentiated communion. Diversities and particularities across the entire community of life aren’t erased but transfigured through relation—christologically grounded without being christologically possessed.
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Kamran, hi. I've just come off a summer project wedding a year-round-farm system to N. California's principal Islamic retreat center. In that same key, any contemporary global figures you'd point to explicitly grounding Mahdist hope and planetary renewal in the same breath? 3/ Upper Room, field edge—the same spirit. A devout Islamo-Christo-Buddhist ag team anchoring key @agrariansharing genepools isn't metaphor but symbiotic planetary reality—relational metabolism, deep incarnation in work clothes. "The Messiah is our universal hero of integration." 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. end/ Keller: "If we can systemically interweave our religious diversity with our remaining ecological diversity - that is, if we can fold our very human religious diversity into attention to the nonhuman heaven and earth - our species may just have a chance of a viable future." 1/ Across the world, this long-anticipated, trans-cultural shift from world economy to ecumene - the birth not of a ‘united nation-states’ nor a world church or religion, but a ‘planetary ecology of symbiotic consciousness’ - is described an ‘inter-spiritual' emergent prop Given that planetary Awakening is by no means a singularly Xian, White or Occidental affair, we should hardly be surprised by the need for and effect of liberatory gnosis & support issuing and extending from far beyond the borderlands of Hartmann’s ‘westering of spirit’, eh? end/ Odd, I suppose, it arriving as a surprise that ‘diversity-composites’ ultimately find purchase among us only where they’re grounded in the lived experience of concrete reality. The reconciliatory key? Dynamically integrating the more-than-human realm. Functional examples of such bio-cultural, diversity-composites exist at the eco-system level. Their most refined expressions affirm the co-evolutionary integrity of seamlessly wedding inter-spiritual to biotic realms. Beauty, the heaven of earth made real, an emergent property.
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