1. In what ways is the Bible or the religions of the Book more prone to a cyclical model of time than is typically let on? I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I know you are much more well versed in the scriptures than I.
2. I too am a syncretist of sorts but I've always wondered about the limits of such syncretism. There seems to me like there's and organic version that is wholesome and there seems also to be the possibility of taking it too far which makes a mockery of one or more traditions and be just an illicit appropriation of things into a context for which they are not only not suited for but diametrically opposed to. I'm thinking not only of some particularly traditionally religious modes, but also the Silicon Valley types that want to appropriate meditation techniques but not to strive to become all aflame with the love of God but rather to be more productive to make more money, etc. Just wondering if you're on the same page and what you think.
Thank you for this invigorating and enlightening piece!
Mate. Once again, brilliant. Thank you for writing this. I also think you answered—at least in part—my (reply) question on your piece on perennialism. 🙂
Enjoyed reading this greatly. I'm especially interested in the next stage of theography - the early Christian writings, like the Gnostic writings, as well as Maximus the Confessor, and medieval theographic development - leading maybe to Nicholas of Cusa? As God goes from the Neoplatonic One to the Cusanic Absolute Maximum, or a brief tangent on Eriugena's concept of God's unknowing of himself
Absolutely beautifully written on this one. What mode of reflection: to build and synthesize the concept of God over millennia of interpenetrating cultures, geographic regions, and modes of thought; and to then branch to the new vistas of possibilities into our current globalized framework, all the while acknowledging the challenges and true differences we face there. And this whole journey in one short article. Keep up the great work.
Would some of the ideas put forward in this article be considered heretical or antithetical to mainstream Orthodox/Catholic theology? Some of the article is over my head, so I could be lost. But I'd be interested to know how the "mainstream" Orthodox/Catholic thinkers of our day would respond. And does anything here conflict with the ways in which people in the Orthodox /Catholic churches tend to evangelize?
One of the best pieces you've written (and they are all good).
Excellent essay! I have a few questions.
1. In what ways is the Bible or the religions of the Book more prone to a cyclical model of time than is typically let on? I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, but I know you are much more well versed in the scriptures than I.
2. I too am a syncretist of sorts but I've always wondered about the limits of such syncretism. There seems to me like there's and organic version that is wholesome and there seems also to be the possibility of taking it too far which makes a mockery of one or more traditions and be just an illicit appropriation of things into a context for which they are not only not suited for but diametrically opposed to. I'm thinking not only of some particularly traditionally religious modes, but also the Silicon Valley types that want to appropriate meditation techniques but not to strive to become all aflame with the love of God but rather to be more productive to make more money, etc. Just wondering if you're on the same page and what you think.
Thank you for this invigorating and enlightening piece!
Would you say 1 Cor 8:6 and Rom 11:36 adapt Stoic metaphysics of creation? James Dunn seems to think so in his Theology of Paul the Apostle
Mate. Once again, brilliant. Thank you for writing this. I also think you answered—at least in part—my (reply) question on your piece on perennialism. 🙂
Enjoyed reading this greatly. I'm especially interested in the next stage of theography - the early Christian writings, like the Gnostic writings, as well as Maximus the Confessor, and medieval theographic development - leading maybe to Nicholas of Cusa? As God goes from the Neoplatonic One to the Cusanic Absolute Maximum, or a brief tangent on Eriugena's concept of God's unknowing of himself
Absolutely beautifully written on this one. What mode of reflection: to build and synthesize the concept of God over millennia of interpenetrating cultures, geographic regions, and modes of thought; and to then branch to the new vistas of possibilities into our current globalized framework, all the while acknowledging the challenges and true differences we face there. And this whole journey in one short article. Keep up the great work.
4/4 Stars. (1 star for each phase)
Also, I am forming a committee to nominate a chairman for the first Spacefarers Guild. Applications welcome.
Would some of the ideas put forward in this article be considered heretical or antithetical to mainstream Orthodox/Catholic theology? Some of the article is over my head, so I could be lost. But I'd be interested to know how the "mainstream" Orthodox/Catholic thinkers of our day would respond. And does anything here conflict with the ways in which people in the Orthodox /Catholic churches tend to evangelize?