Nor do they attack the gate as if getting through it is
the total means of their existence... getting through and attacking the horrid strange unfriendly other human entering THEIR home!
Not exact matches
What matters here is that the
total witness found in the Gospels, as well as in the epistles
of Paul, John, and others, is to an activity
of God in human
existence and through a human activity, through which «newness
of life» has been known; God has been seen as sheer Love - in - action, and human
existence has been given
meaning and value as a potential agency for divine Love in the world and in human affairs.
If the
total coincidence
of transcendence and immanence is vision, and not structure
of existence, then the traditional styles
of faith and practices
of faith may still have possible
meaning, even though they are seen to be penultimate; and then the radical theologian can be understood as standing in a spectrum
of theological positions and not in isolation.
This is «objective immortality,» in Whitehead's phrasing; by virtue
of it, creaturely «perishing» does not
mean total annihilation but rather participation in the divine
existence.
And consequently it is to equate the understanding
of meaning with a
total interpretation
of existence and
of reality in the system
of Christianity.
Now an ultimate choice is thrust upon every man, as he can either turn back in horror at our chaos by engaging in a final No - saying, or he can turn forward and meet our darkness by
means of an ultimate Yes - saying, a
total affirmation
of our actual and immediate
existence.
It
means that all that I have lived, experienced, and done «in my body» — and that is everything I do, experience, and live — is so much a part
of my
total self that in the re-creation
of that self by God there is some continuing instrument or organ
of experience which makes possible for me both personal
existence and also participation with other men and life in a world which is more than just personality.
That didn't
mean the branes were voids: Quantum theory asserts that even the
total vacuum
of empty space is seething with «virtual» subatomic particles that constantly wink in and out
of existence.