@AimeTim In practice, the identical apostasy of mainstream faith or, as Thomas Berry summarizes it, the "downward reductionism of the mechanists and the upward reductionism of the spiritualists.” No wonder the call for a New Reformation: parallel lines intersecting in a common Infinite.
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Copy of tweet: 2/ At the point where mature science and mature religion reconcile, the old idea of Reality as a concept to be grasped is discarded, like worn out luggage. What does it mean to us, when the Great Mystery assumes its proper place at the heart of our understanding and world?
@PhysInHistory @holdengraber "The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned the very meaning of faith into its exact opposite. True faith involves not knowing and even not needing to know, but we made faith demanding to know and insisting that we do know!" @RichardRohrOFM
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Tweet from @sophiacycles 7/23/22 What I had learned from Buddhism was that I did not have to know myself analytically as much as I had to tolerate not knowing.~Mark Epstein