Always reforming
'Reformed always reforming, reformed always reforming' -- you can hear it here accompanying the march upon dust fields of glory -- this undercurrent of mind grasping hold to tradition's noose.
Beautiful this chant rings in my ears, and yet blissfully pangs my eardrum senseless...seducing brains with sense, seducing sense with a harmonic melody of sorts. Ghostly harmony charm me more, for I can still think! Sweet muse limit yourself not within our bonds and infiltrate our whole selves so that we might truthfully think...truthfully think creatively neither hindered nor constrained by cross-like limitations. 'Reformed always reforming, reformed always reforming' -- ah yes, aye, Imago homo, imago traditiones! Limit me not maker of melody, and move my molecules oh muse...sculpt, paint, sing, write in me pneumonic music to inhale and exhale as long as I am able.
This said (though perhaps a bit ambiguous), I have had qualms and struggle with aspects of the tradition in which I am a part. Most of these struggles have been based on theological, rational and practical grounds. It is bad in a theology class when no one can make a good statement concerning faith, when no one can explain the authority of a text held sacred, when the only answer is grounded upon an intuitive notion yielding nothing but circular logic and needless mindwork when foundations of that logic have nothing to stand on...
aye, I find myself in error...
'Hope' and 'love' are two factors I see as tenets perhaps holding Christendom together...though in my experience compared to the experience of those around me, 'faith' has different faces...it has a little different meaning for everyone, even within Christendom...it allows for a multicultural mosaic of representatives within the world, it allows for all to hold onto hope and love as they experience it in their own lives. Faith is what locks the individual with the corporate. Is it categorical? Impossible...it shape-shifts along with our individual sacreds. Does tradition hold this faith in check? To some degree I would contend it holds the faith of those within a particular religion in check, however I think it also constrains one from embodying his or her sacred. People who merely imitate do so out of fear, anxiety, habit with no substance...perhaps to some degree it creates nominal Christians always rushing to catch up with time spent dwelling on what theologians before have said...
Faith also binds humanity together under one umbrella at a common table with each other...but we can't see it except under our exclusive umbrella's of tradition! Perhaps the term 'global community' is misunderstood by truth claims everywhere. Truth is not exclusive and yet we flail our own exclusive fashions of it for the world to see. For one to truly convert all others perhaps could be the greatest sin of all, to irradicate inclusivity, for a monopoly bound for violent revolt.
Beautiful this chant rings in my ears, and yet blissfully pangs my eardrum senseless...seducing brains with sense, seducing sense with a harmonic melody of sorts. Ghostly harmony charm me more, for I can still think! Sweet muse limit yourself not within our bonds and infiltrate our whole selves so that we might truthfully think...truthfully think creatively neither hindered nor constrained by cross-like limitations. 'Reformed always reforming, reformed always reforming' -- ah yes, aye, Imago homo, imago traditiones! Limit me not maker of melody, and move my molecules oh muse...sculpt, paint, sing, write in me pneumonic music to inhale and exhale as long as I am able.
This said (though perhaps a bit ambiguous), I have had qualms and struggle with aspects of the tradition in which I am a part. Most of these struggles have been based on theological, rational and practical grounds. It is bad in a theology class when no one can make a good statement concerning faith, when no one can explain the authority of a text held sacred, when the only answer is grounded upon an intuitive notion yielding nothing but circular logic and needless mindwork when foundations of that logic have nothing to stand on...
aye, I find myself in error...
'Hope' and 'love' are two factors I see as tenets perhaps holding Christendom together...though in my experience compared to the experience of those around me, 'faith' has different faces...it has a little different meaning for everyone, even within Christendom...it allows for a multicultural mosaic of representatives within the world, it allows for all to hold onto hope and love as they experience it in their own lives. Faith is what locks the individual with the corporate. Is it categorical? Impossible...it shape-shifts along with our individual sacreds. Does tradition hold this faith in check? To some degree I would contend it holds the faith of those within a particular religion in check, however I think it also constrains one from embodying his or her sacred. People who merely imitate do so out of fear, anxiety, habit with no substance...perhaps to some degree it creates nominal Christians always rushing to catch up with time spent dwelling on what theologians before have said...
Faith also binds humanity together under one umbrella at a common table with each other...but we can't see it except under our exclusive umbrella's of tradition! Perhaps the term 'global community' is misunderstood by truth claims everywhere. Truth is not exclusive and yet we flail our own exclusive fashions of it for the world to see. For one to truly convert all others perhaps could be the greatest sin of all, to irradicate inclusivity, for a monopoly bound for violent revolt.
posted by Timcom at 5:23 PM
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I'll leave this blog up...but the last couple paragraphs I need to rewrite later, because they are not expressing what I was trying to get across...my apologies.
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