This may take a while to feel out … (10/12/09)
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(11/2/09) No sooner than I think I can start with putting thought to text,
I get writer’s block and flounder in how to proceed. It is like a mental
saddling up to ride off in all directions at once. Sometimes the thought
work is just slow for me. Sorry. I will not likely ever be fast in posting
or prolific since I watch and read and live under so much and various
diversions and obligations. Welcome to modern living self …
My objective in this blog is to explore the principles and pragmatics of
liberty as a primary emphasis with a sense of how they are sourced in the
sovereignty of “Truth” anchored in a faith reality.
The term “Theopraxy” came to mind and turns up in web search with listings for a book written by Michael Benedikt titled:
God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy
One review notes Benedikt’s 7 tenets which begin with notions that –
1. God is not a person or thing or principal or spirit. God is activity of a certain sort: the free doing of good, where by “good” we mean that which preserves, honors, or promotes all forms of life.
2. God is not the Creator. Nor is God all-powerful or omniscient. God is the newest and weakest “force” in the universe, a human production, even as God -good doing- produces humaneness in turn.
I am not yet ready to surrender “God” to recapitulation as a mere
“activity” of “human production”. I may have to come up with a term
other than “theopraxy”, even though the root meaning falls in line with
my intended emphasis for this blog.
I will have to add Benedikt’s book to my reading list for further study.
Wind
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