“The paradox of God’s simultaneous beyondness and nearness takes concrete flesh for us in the person of Jesus – God’s storyteller, God’s Story made human. God is not only enthroned above the flood, but a fellow passenger in the boat.”

#Jesus #Paradox #Transcendence #Immanence #Incarnation #Story #Myth #Remembrance #Faith #Episcopal #Monastics #SSJE

https://www.ssje.org/2019/02/19/the-sacred-work-of-remembrance-br-keith-nelson/

quote, gaston bachelard, air & dreams

The voyage into distant worlds of the imaginary truly conducts a dynamic psyche only if it takes the shape of a voyage into the land of the infinite. In the realm of imagination, every immanence takes on a transcendence.

#gastonbachelard
#airanddreams
#imagination
#imaginary
#immanence

#whiteheadisms #immanence

Making my slow way through Adventure of Ideas in both German trans. (as book) and EN original (pdf) -on pg 169 - a faulty metaphysics seems at work in the theology of today's singularitarians (inheritors of what ANW calls "Platonic doctrine of subordinate derivations"?).