nature of the divine
God is the source of reality. It is indeed that simple: whatever the source of reality is, that's God. The Big Bang, entropy, quantum fields — these are how , not why . Implementation details. Rather than whence , merely what . Means instead of self-justifying end.
from What is God? by Sonya Mann
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
Human concepts can only approximate the holy transcendence that cradles existence itself. Even our most correct perceptual and existential paradigm is going to be inadequate. Concepts are maps, models. And all models are wrong, as the saying goes, but some are useful. The inadequacy of the map may be vexing in its inherent omissions, but nonetheles
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Stuart Evans added 1y ago
I would suggest that the position with the most theological coherence and historical validity would be best encapsulated this way: God is, and always has been, at work in every culture planting the seeds of Christ even though it may not be communicated in the exact grammar of the traditional Christian lexicon. With Christ as the hermeneutic key, th
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Stuart Evans added 1y ago
I don’t know about anyone else, but right now I need a God who weeps and a God who sings over Her children (Zeph 3:17) more than I need a God who commands us to “girds up [our] loins like a man” (Job 42:7). Not that there’s not a time for that. God is not jut one thing. God has many faces and which one He/She/It/They shows us all depends on what we
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