Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Bringing back sacredness, myth, romance and heroism
Sacredness, myth, romance and heroism
have largely gone out of our modern culture, and they have also gone
out of religion, philosophy and science. The religious philosophical
mythos of the Theoevolutionary Churchbrings these things back,
with the epic narrative of our evolution to Godhood in the cosmos.
The God first glimpsed inwardly by the
great religions is affirmed and transformed in the outward evolution
of the material-supermaterial world to Godhood. Religion and science
can join in this great adventure. Life evolves upwardly, with great
heroism, with fallings
and risings, all the way to Godhood in the cosmos.
Here is a reason to like the
presocratics: Homer was more right than Plato in
showing the Gods as anthropomorphic, for which Plato banned him from
the Republic---Plato preferred that his highest God to be a
nonmaterial mathematical Form. Godhood is not human but the Gods
have material and supermaterial life.
And this is the God of the great
religions, and this is also the Aristotelian God of Aquinas, but this
is a transformed Godhood from the God that the great religions found
inwardly---now real Godhood is also seen as attained outwardly in evolution.
It may be easier at this point in our
evolution to speak of Godhood as having an absence of flaws regarding
truth, beauty and goodness in comparison to humans. Evolution
explains the progress of these virtues, with Godhood as having
attained the zenith, or absolute, of these things.
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