Sunday, March 17, 2013
Resacralizing the world: Bringing the kingdom of God and man together in modernity
Western secular life may have replaced
the kingdom of God with the kingdom of man but both sides in general
defined the other side as evil. Both essentially rejected one
another.
Resacralizing the world affirms that
the kingdom of man evolves to the kingdom of God, or to Godhood.
This is the real connection between the two worlds. Neither side is
evil.
The way is not to go back exclusively
to the traditional theocentric world which essentially rejected the
kingdom of man, and the way is not to only affirm the kingdom of man
and reject the kingdom of God.
This is the religious as well as realistic orientation
toward the transcendent which can help create the social, political
and artistic forms in the future. Ethical virtues will be cultivated
around our evolution to Godhood. To change Aristotle: the proper
operation of man is to evolve and not merely to understand.
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"The way is not to go back exclusively to the traditional theocentric world which essentially rejected the kingdom of man, and the way is not to only affirm the kingdom of man and reject the kingdom of God."
ReplyDeleteExactly, wonderfully stated. This is the tightrope that humanity must walk. I also liked your modified Aristotle, beautifully pithy.