Positive and Negative Theology

The social concerns of the Revealed Religions derive from a negative theology, which says that since material things do not, or should not matter, one should therefore not be greedy, warlike etc., what really matters are the unseen things that can only be reached by blocking out the material world and all its concerns. This is in fact seeking freedom from personal bondage, and the social concerns of Negative Theology are directly related to this way of defining bondage. This is Negative Theology.

The Positive Theology of the Evolutionary Christian Church admits the Negative Theology of the Revealed Religions, in the Involutionary Inward Path, as being the Path to the Kingdom of God Within, which indeed can be arrived at only by blocking out material life. But in the Twofold Path, the material and supermaterial Path of evolution to Godhood is accomplished through the Evolutionary Outward Path. The Kingdom of God Within of the Inward Path is seeing or experiencing the Soul or Spirit Within, which is only Half-Knowing God. The Outward Path relates to living in the world of pains and joys, and this Path evolves life to the Real Supreme Object Godhood, at the Zenith of Evolution in the Kosmos. This is Positive Theology.