tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3537189393097457666..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Spinning In CoherenceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7759264003410096902015-09-10T19:52:28.571-07:002015-09-10T19:52:28.571-07:00As I mentioned, I turned Catlick about 5 years ago...As I mentioned, I turned Catlick about 5 years ago (and it was somewhat Bob's fault), but I really struggled for a time with transubstantiation. Then one night, I was sitting on a dock on a Maine lake, looking at the stars, and my son-in-law said, "Look at that star, and think of the fact that the light we're seeing was shining when Jesus walked the earth."<br /><br />We were all half in the bag at the time, but that didn't matter. No more problem with transubstantiation.mainemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-9431009297059106962015-09-09T15:36:38.597-07:002015-09-09T15:36:38.597-07:00Note that there are two wills in Jesus -- divine a...<i> Note that there are two wills in Jesus -- divine and human -- but that these function in harmony, or in wholeness; they are coherent, not at odds or battling to occupy the same space.</i> <br /><br />How timely. Just started "Cosmic Liturgy" and von Balthasar was explaining the whole drama of the "One-willers" vs. the "Two-willers" and I'm thinking to myself, this is nothing to lose a tongue and right hand over. Is it? <br /><br />Thanks for splainin' some to me.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02302615225311776021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14362574321332164402015-09-09T13:00:17.646-07:002015-09-09T13:00:17.646-07:00"... Intelligibility is the vapor trail of pe..."... Intelligibility is the vapor trail of personhood."<br /><br />O Man, chemtrails got nothing on that One.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3763003638994327312015-09-09T11:24:59.672-07:002015-09-09T11:24:59.672-07:00Look out below!Look out below!Godnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30608375153917829652015-09-09T10:45:08.109-07:002015-09-09T10:45:08.109-07:00Exactly. Even many of his followers couldn't s...Exactly. Even many of his followers couldn't stomach what he was telling them face-to-face, and turned away.<br /><br /><i>It takes an awful lot of groundwork to get to where that statement makes total sense -- i.e., is part of a completely coherent system -- but how many people are willing to do the spadework? And even then, the sufficient cause of the coherence is always God himsoph: understanding where God is coming from always comes from God, i.e., grace.</i><br /><br />I'm working on a project which requires a great deal of study of the conditions around the time Jesus was born. The interesting thing about it is how much we can know about the time and the places - a <i>real</i> time, and <i>real</i> places, full of people who really lived and breathed. Nobody wandering the slopes of Mount Olympos is likely to find the remains of the palace of Zeus or any other god. But anybody can walk the streets of Jerusalem and know that here, almost two thousand years ago, God dropped his depth charge and everything changed. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-61105643230910530512015-09-09T10:32:39.836-07:002015-09-09T10:32:39.836-07:00What gives it the ring of truth is that no human w...What gives it the ring of truth is that no human would insist on something so off the wall as a selling point. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-71137278592061960772015-09-09T10:29:53.421-07:002015-09-09T10:29:53.421-07:00The real problem is that you can't just tell a...<i>The real problem is that you can't just tell a modern person, "here, eat this. It's God!" To modern ears, that doesn't just sound wrong, but insane.</i><br /><br />Not only to the secular, but even to many Christians. Rather, they prefer to think that in eating this, they are <i>remembering</i> God, which is much less disturbing. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com