nature of the divine
what is [God] like?
nature of the divine
Schelling differentiates between the divine ground—an unconscious depth or yearning—and divine existence, which is God growing into time, manifesting in the dynamic evolution of the cosmos, and eventually, incarnating as a human being.
Schelling and Whitehead each depict God as a being somewhat at odds with Itself. In Schelling’s account, God... See more
Schelling and Whitehead each depict God as a being somewhat at odds with Itself. In Schelling’s account, God... See more
Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
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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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,
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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.
Sonya Mann • What is God?
The word “God” is like a stick of dynamite. It remains valuable precisely because its utterance sets off such potent cultural and conceptual reverberations. Whitehead, in his own way, used it to name something at once tender and cosmic, intangible yet inescapable, the poet of the world who does not create the world from nothing but helps us make... See more
Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
When he thinks of the divine, it is not as some grand logician but as the poet of the world. God does not make the world but makes something of the world, allowing us to find or create meaning in the creative onrush of reality despite the wreckage of history. God leaves open the possibility of reconciliation even if it in fact never fully arrives.... See more
Matthew David Segall • Reflections on my dialogue with Peter Rollins
