@commentmag @WestLondonMan 2/ Here, neighborly life opens another possibility: organization arising from the habitat, relationships, and common life that give it intelligence and legitimacy, restoring an ontic bond in which shared agency takes form, remains accountable, and evolves with the life it serves.
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20/ New creation husbandry means not bringing God’s future to a passive world, but inhabiting an earthly metabolic integrity where renewal becomes bodily, historical, sacramental—grown, eaten, composted, repaired, restrained, shared; incarnational only insofar as it is lived. Subtweet: · 9/ Faithful earthwork becomes a proving ground where soteriology meets the practical requirements of human and earthly solidarity. Is it performative messianism—the cult of self-importance—or does it submit to creaturely limits, receiving its agency as covenantal participation? Concrete reality is the covenantal realm in which redemptive time comes to ground. Here, in the intensification of a vital coherence harmonizing the music of our deepest needs and aspirations to a larger symphony of earthly belonging, we and the world resurrect as one. #easter There’s a great secret, at least for most of humanity, and as close as us, so we do not see it. Namely, our hope for redemption, for personal and corporate resurrection? Plain, human-centered miscalculation, if it doesn’t include our partnered indivisibility with Creation. [Animating painting of leaf cross with calligraphy reading, “Spring is Christ Risen. Easter is Spring Within Us.] –
Open original document@nils_gilman 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'.
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