Thursday, July 13, 2006

He found God in the world, not apart from it
from Marc Bushor's Blog

It's not about philosophy, but actions; following, not believing:

Nowhere do we find him (Jesus) specuating on the nature of being, and abstracting "essential" truths from historical events. He makes no philosophical formulas or introduces no abstracted ideas of God. His religion was relational and not philosophical. His "ethic" if he had one at all in the way we mean it, was action oriented and always pointed to concrete actions. He found God in the world, not apart from it. There is no hint of the dualism that later plagued Christendom throughout the ages. His way is the way of wisdom--an earthly, life-affirming wisdom that people could relate to. more
(the journey still remains one of my favorite daily reads)