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The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
a·poth·e·o·sis
/əˌpäTHēˈōsəs/
noun
the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax.
John not only writes in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, but understands himself to be writing at the climax of the tradition, when all the eschatological oracles of the prophets are about to be finally fulfilled, and so he interprets and gathers them up in his own prophetic revelation. What makes him a Christian prophet is that he does
... See moreRichard Bauckham • The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)
After the cremation, Livia – now called Augusta, because Augustus had formally adopted her in his will – rewarded with the sum of a million sesterces the man who swore that he had seen Augustus soaring to heaven. Augustus was now a god.
Mary Beard • SPQR
The sufferer goes all the way down to death, and somehow he is rescued, not only for his own sake, but also so that YHWH’s “kingdom,” that is, his sovereignty over the nations, might become a reality.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
Thus the dark night of the soul exists for the sole purpose of furthering love, a love that is partially realized in each experience of the dawn. In the last verse of his final poem, John writes of this awakening: How gently and lovingly you wake in my heart, where in secret you dwell alone; and in your sweet breathing, filled with good and glory,
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