@CarlMcColman So greatly enjoy and affirm your presence, acuity and eloquence, Carl. I'd personally acknowledge a further essentially Christian, which is to say messianic, aspect to cosmic contemplation; namely, its contextual or evolutionary dimension, and all such integration represents.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 5/ Heschel spells it out, unambiguously: “Impartiality with regard to history," he says, "is a pretense.” Pivotal to such prophetic discernment is an awareness of 'enlightened being' as existentially indivisible from Teilhard de Chardin’s “irresistible march of evolution.”
6/ Simply stated, the prophetic mode positions contemplative awareness within trans-historical experience of an _evolving_ Universe; of Reality itself as an unfinished project. God is, after all, not a noun, but a verb: not a standing still, but life, co-evolving.
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