—> The Incarnation can then be understood as the Author becoming a character—God entering human history as the Christ Logos—thus accomplishing a unification of Creator and creation, thereby transforming the nature of both divinity and humanity.
Matthew, I think what you’re highlighting and what those like Whitehead are saying is that we need to move beyond such dualistic views of God, man, and the cosmos. What needs to be seen is that Creator and creation have never been, aren’t, and can never be separate. This requires evolutionary change on both the part of science and religion - realizing that they are two sides of the same coin, describing the non-dual nature of Reality.
Jesus Christ wasn’t the great exception, uniting separate God and man, but rather a revelatory example and archetype of Logos incarnate as a human being. Moreover, the cosmos is Logos incarnate - the eternal manifestation (or expression) of God. The Church must move beyond simply seeing itself as the institutional, localized Body of Christ, and instead proclaim the cosmic truth that all of creation is The Body of God, of which no one and no thing (man included) is separate.
There are two primary systems of thought. Natural theology and modern scientific naturalism. Humanism versus Naturalism. I am talking about the western experience
Humanism is anthropomorphic in that it operates within a humanistic conceptual system grounded in, and having primary application to, humanity and social reality as known in lived experience.
Modern scientific thought, in contrast, is mechanomorphic or physicalistic conceptual system- one grounded is external sensory experience. Science thinks itself as being objective. In some ways, it is, within its framework of thought. But its framework is about understanding things in a way that would give us manipulatory power over the conditions of our existence to satisfy out materialistic interests.
The machine became the leading metaphor.
E. M. Adams in his book Religion and Cultural Freedom writes that these two systems create a dilemma he calls "the antinomy of the mental". "In pursuit of materialistic interests, we degraded and neglected humanistic values and concentrated on the search for the kind of knowledge that would be power in the conquest and mastery of nature for our own purposes" This led to contracted view of the self.
Re: Q&R #3… your responsense is also biblical (for those who care about such things). Lots of passages to reference here, but ill go with Galatians 5:6… “The only thing that matters is Faith expressing itself in love.”
—> The Incarnation can then be understood as the Author becoming a character—God entering human history as the Christ Logos—thus accomplishing a unification of Creator and creation, thereby transforming the nature of both divinity and humanity.
Matthew, I think what you’re highlighting and what those like Whitehead are saying is that we need to move beyond such dualistic views of God, man, and the cosmos. What needs to be seen is that Creator and creation have never been, aren’t, and can never be separate. This requires evolutionary change on both the part of science and religion - realizing that they are two sides of the same coin, describing the non-dual nature of Reality.
Jesus Christ wasn’t the great exception, uniting separate God and man, but rather a revelatory example and archetype of Logos incarnate as a human being. Moreover, the cosmos is Logos incarnate - the eternal manifestation (or expression) of God. The Church must move beyond simply seeing itself as the institutional, localized Body of Christ, and instead proclaim the cosmic truth that all of creation is The Body of God, of which no one and no thing (man included) is separate.
There are two primary systems of thought. Natural theology and modern scientific naturalism. Humanism versus Naturalism. I am talking about the western experience
Humanism is anthropomorphic in that it operates within a humanistic conceptual system grounded in, and having primary application to, humanity and social reality as known in lived experience.
Modern scientific thought, in contrast, is mechanomorphic or physicalistic conceptual system- one grounded is external sensory experience. Science thinks itself as being objective. In some ways, it is, within its framework of thought. But its framework is about understanding things in a way that would give us manipulatory power over the conditions of our existence to satisfy out materialistic interests.
The machine became the leading metaphor.
E. M. Adams in his book Religion and Cultural Freedom writes that these two systems create a dilemma he calls "the antinomy of the mental". "In pursuit of materialistic interests, we degraded and neglected humanistic values and concentrated on the search for the kind of knowledge that would be power in the conquest and mastery of nature for our own purposes" This led to contracted view of the self.
Re: Q&R #3… your responsense is also biblical (for those who care about such things). Lots of passages to reference here, but ill go with Galatians 5:6… “The only thing that matters is Faith expressing itself in love.”
Fabulous!