@Dan_Bowdoin Ultimately, peacemaking is the orthopraxis of planetary inhabitation. It includes the kenosis and conversion of the powers of this age: capacities withdrawn from extraction, domination and war toward the incarnation of a common world. Salvation enacted is inhabitation made new.
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This is why Jesus can say, “My yoke is easy, my burden light.” Not solitary heroics, but yielding to reality's grain—Spirit's resurrection power (Rom 8:11; 1 Cor 15:10) working through creation’s own substance and history's momentum, yoked together in harmony, incarnate in us. 9/ We mistake the Event for a finale when it's actually reality reaching critical mass—truth intensifying to the point where pretense collapses, and the Real breaks through embodied fidelity to life's deepest currents. Not ending but integration: incarnation actualized. 18/ The crises facing humanity and the Earth aren't peripheral to the maturation of consciousness; they are its crucible. The demand for justice is indivisible: the human wound and the planetary wound constitute a single, primal betrayal—ontic and moral—judged by the same light. 12/ Hence the Kingdom is not escape from matter but matter itself unveiled as the medium of communion or judgment. If empire and entropy are flesh's crucifixion, incarnation is their undoing from within. Flesh is where solidarity is revealed, empire condemned, creation renewed. 29/ This is where regenerative design becomes a sacred, integrative imperative. Immanent solidarity isn’t a theology of abstraction and detachment—yet another pundit or pandit spinning hunger into theory. Incarnation is contextual, not conceptual. A praxis of intercarnation. 29/ This is where regenerative design becomes a sacred, integrative imperative. Immanent solidarity isn’t a theology of abstraction and detachment—yet another pundit or pandit spinning hunger into theory. Incarnation is contextual, not conceptual. A praxis of intercarnation. 13/ Incarnation is thus neither doctrine nor distant horizon but God’s pivot-presence—the eschaton disclosing itself through history’s fractures. Nothing lies outside its scope. Evolutionary history, ecological survival, political justice: all are enfolded in the kairotic now. 24/ The threshold between mystical and political fuses here. What seems like retreat from the world's systems is actually the deepest form of engagement—not opposing power but embodying an alternative ontology that renders domination obsolete through the sheer weight of presence – `
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Kingdom hermaneutics, isn't it? What seems like retreat from the world's systems is actually the deepest form of engagement. The Real, it transpires, is fundamentally _reinhabited_. Where loving your neighbor integrates the more-than-human dimension, even angels stay to garden. And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. Then again, what is permaculture fundamentally for? Could be that AI functionally represents the latest, cosmic twist of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism. And perhaps the WWW exists to undo itself. Either way, getting Real and getting Down defines an existential essential of the Soul's walk Home. Dignity, yes. Quote tweet: end/ Ultimately, of course, the planet and our future are what we all share. In this light, prophetic earthwork transcends the schismatic distinctions of tribe, nation and religion in active, common assent to the truth of the neighborly. ‘Realocalization’ is how we describe it. Energy comes and goes where attention flows? I commonly use the term 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from synthetic Spectacle toward unmediated encounter with native intelligence. A timeless resonance, loving your neighbor. Terrific. Perhaps also worth noting that whereas legacy forms of significance typically dismiss 'neighborly eco-social reality' as a defining, co-evolutionary pivot-point for personal and world transformation, it nonetheless remains our primary, bio-cultural 'space for agency'. 2/ The pathology, we now recognize. Our primary challenge, then? How best to tackle it. 'What, who and how can we trust?' As it happens, the 'Realocalization' movement is putting flesh on the vines. What does the work involve? In a nutshell, returning to the home-field advantage. Subtweet: 25/ This is where the peaceable kingdom and radical neighborliness meet as participatory depth within a democratic eschatology. Peace here is no neutrality, but fidelity to a radically relational state of being, marked by nonviolence as the fullest expression of integration. –
Open original documentThe Nordic Christ is Western exceptionalism made icon: the principalities that murdered Christ reappear in his likeness, clothing a civilizational consciousness still possessed by those powers in a counterfeit Christic self-image of messianic innocence and moral authority.
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1/2 "The world’s majority is steadily moving off the marked-out paths of the Atlanticist map, ceasing to look for guidance from people who are themselves lost. In this new configuration, the terminus of history isn’t any single Western capital; the road has returned to the sea." Quote tweet: "The catastrophic failure of the American-Israeli war on Iran seems certain to inaugurate another revolution in global consciousness." The true historical analogy for this war isn't Suez 1956 but Tsushima 1905. Must read. An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians From change.org The Planetary Christ laying the smack down on the cursed exceptionalism of the Nordic Christ, in a statement issuing from the Holy Land, the Gospel's epicenter, the very birthplace of Christianity? It had to happen. If I may interject? “The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - von Balthasar –
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