Tag: natural sacrament
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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October 10, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
The Christian heritage, its colonial overreach, its imperial politics, and its theology of dominion, justifies its claim in biblical canon. [WORD & WORLD, Theology for Christian Ministry, “Canon,” . . .
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December 04, 2009 08:27 PM EST --
Hope in the future is a seed inherited from the past and existing in the moment. The reality we belong to is sandwiched between two non-existences, the past and the future. The past is memory, the future . . .
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August 16, 2009 02:04 AM EDT --
Every living cell carries in common life’s genetic “grammar”, including human cells. The cosmic codes of evolving “transubstantiation” are to Christian religion evidence . . .
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November 30, 2006 05:04 PM EST --
“…as we survey the principle features of [the] post-Einsteinian world…step by step we [move] into the Hebrew prophet’s eschatological world. A universe bound fast to grim, timeless . . .
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December 22, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
A persisting "heresy" (choice) of Christianity in general, has been to institutionalize and over-emphasize representational reality and alienate the community of believers from . . .
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March 22, 2009 02:03 AM EDT --
Because of fixation in "isms" we are broken in community and in fidelity. Healing and health come with growth; fixation in "isms" is the frustration of growth, health and healing. . . .
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January 23, 2006 08:16 PM EST --
Stillpoint. Wave splashpoint. Emphatic Word!
For better for worse, explosive creation begins
With the imploded idea.
Word's singular voice amplifies polarity
In a panoply of plurality.
The unfolding . . .
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November 10, 2006 10:13 AM EST --
The election cycle of 2006 might be interpreted as a mission rescuing American culture from drowning in a sea of distrust. The danger of asphyxiation continues and so does the need of respiratory help. . . .
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September 19, 2009 11:09 PM EDT --
The evolution of symbiosis is nature’s pattern and God’s plan . In every least fiber and fabric of life, sustainability is a process and product of symbiosis. Evidence of science . . .
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November 27, 2009 12:15 PM EST --
The “Tragedy of the Commons” comes to Iowa agriculture. The conspiracy of weather together with corn-crop monoculturing is a costly problem for farmers and nature. Late-maturing corn grain, . . .
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December 09, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
QUESTION Based on universal understandings of cosmic origin and evolution, what faith convictions (certitude) and rational conclusions can all religions and civilizations accept and advance in . . .
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December 16, 2006 07:05 AM EST --
At the beginning of the book RELIGION & CIVILITY (Sylvester L Steffen, 2004, third book of the Second Enlightenment Trilogy) is an Overview with 10 axioms (modified below), corollaries that derive . . .
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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . .
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March 16, 2008 02:55 AM EDT --
As to the status of women in cultural history, there is indeed a long train of philosophical/ theological thinking back into the deep past of consciousness by which thought advances the ascendancy of . . .
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February 27, 2009 04:20 AM EST --
Dominion theology, premised in Earth-centric cosmology, is irreconcilable with process theology (natural) that arises organically from evolving cosmic consciousness. Roman Catholic fixation in its own . . .
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September 26, 2009 07:33 PM EDT --
Truth be known, nothing in nature is free; everything has value, everything is at a price.
Evolution is nature’s Call ; Sacrament is the Godly Response of conscionable self-reflection. . . .
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October 24, 2009 06:59 PM EDT --
The “Mother Tree” is Earth-life’s vital source/ resource. From childhood we are taught “mighty oaks from little acorns grow”, and as we grow up we learn also that “little . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:50 PM EST --
Nuclear family is the avatar of communal authenticity, harmony. The schism of female/ male mutuality corrupts authenticity, civil culture. The family paradigm supposes parental mutuality/ authority; . . .
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November 28, 2009 02:10 AM EST --
What is “moral imagination?” It is the network link of self-reflective sensitivity within the web-life continuum. It is the smoldering of deep conscious intuitions that eventually flare . . .
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September 20, 2006 02:38 AM EDT --
If she's said it once she's said it a thousand times, the incomparable value of learning! At age 75 my wife Felicitas is a retired teacher known to hundreds of her students as . . .
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