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In a discussion of origins we need to focus on the ontology of the cosmos. What does it mean for the world or the cosmos (or the objects in it) to exist?
“Influence doesn’t happen by extracting ourselves from the world for the sake of our values, but by bringing our values into the culture.”
― The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
― The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
“Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“We’re all informavores. The drive to know the unknown still exists in us all. It powers the unpredictability of the scarcity loop. It’s that deep, angsty discomfort we feel as we wait for information about an outcome. That could be knowing the falling of slot machine reels, a flood or drought of likes, the shifting of a Robinhood stock, or waiting for a rightward swipe.”
― Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
― Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
“everything in the so-called world of nature is meant to lead us back to God. In that sense, created matter is meant to serve eucharistically. By treating the world as a eucharistic offering in Christ, received from God and offered to him, we are drawn into God's presence.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“The central paschal event - Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension - is something Christians participate in: God "made us alive with Christ," Paul insists (Eph. 2:5). He "raised us up with Christ" (Eph. 2:6; Col. 3:1). The result of this sharing in Christ is
that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
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