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Oct 9, 2023 · Image via PRRI. The death of God is a slow process. As Nietzsche put it, it’s like the light of a star which takes time to arrive. God died somewhere in the 19th century but like the adoption of ...
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A cycle occurs from the top to the bottom of reality and back again. God exists in one eternal round and can hold the tension of opposites together. By letting the serpent act as his agent, God willed evil but accomplished good. One ascends to godhood by transcending the devil; one transcends the devil by accepting his necessity.
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If we look at the opening verses of Genesis 1 in the context of other ancient near eastern creation stories, we see a significant difference: while those stories culminate in God/gods creating a te...Instead, we have (later on, in Exodus) the building of the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary in the desert through which God dwells among the people. The Mishkan is built by people, not by God/gods—a...What might seem like a new (medieval/modern) idea—people partnering with God to repair/perfect/complete the world—is actually a very ancient one. The liminal, unfinished state of the world in Genes...We are living in an undefined time: our daily existence is no longer dominated by the pandemic, yet neither have we settled into a new normal. This sense of being in transition—neither here nor there— can feel destabilizing; but is the time in between really temporary, or are we always living in between moments, identities, and phases of life? In t...
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Process theology recognizes every “thing” is really a series of events across time, a process, that emerges in relationship. We are each a process, and creation is a process. God is a process, revelation is a process. All emerge in relationship, meaning that no thing can be understood in isolation.
A naked intent toward God, the desire for him alone, is enough. Johnston, 56. The liminal space is an opportunity for growth—a time when the old structures and explanations do not fit, when the old way of knowing is brought into question, when one’s very life-meaning is threatened and made anew.
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May 2, 2023 · Although included in part three, the final chapter, ‘God in the Gaps: A Theology of Liminality’, has the effect of bringing the book to a satisfying conclusion. It does so by rooting the forgoing discussion of liminality firmly in the nature of God and God’s relationship to the world. Crossing Thresholds functions well on a number of ...
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May 22, 2019 · The liminality of our time is this “betwixt and between,” as the old and the new experience of the sacred mingle, and a new image of God — often painfully — begins to take hold. [4] Jung’s interest in the dreams of his patients and others delving deeply into themselves yielded the unmistakable recognition of the new image of God being prepared in the hinterland of our lives.
