Quotes & Sayings


We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write from the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Index - TheoPoetics of R.E. Slater



Index -
TheoPoetics of R.E. Slater
Arranged in chronological order


OneRepublic - Come Home (prodigal son)


"Wherever home is,
Whatever home is,
Return,
Begin again,
Become anew."

- R.E. Slater
August 12, 2012


PROCESSUAL POEMS

 A Short Blessing

May your roots run deep in living soil.
May your faith stay supple enough to bend with the wind.
May your love outgrow every wall that fear has built.
And may you become — again and again —
the Church Jesus dreamed
and the world so desperately needs.

Amen.

x

Processual Reality (Gravity, Consciousness, and Processual Emergence: Essay 6)

(An Historical-Theological Study of "Son of Man" vs "Son of God" VIII)

(An Historical-Theological Study of "Son of Man" vs "Son of God" VIII)

A Poetic Coda (The Processual Turn: AGI Coherence v Decoherence, Part II)

(The Processual Turn: ChatGPT & I Discuss AGI, Part I)

The Well (The Remedy Is the Experience: Facing Harm and Pain)

Invocation: A Theology of Love (Choosing Post-Evangelical Theology)

(Process Theology & Relativity: Reading Einstein Through Whitehead)

Threads of Relational Becoming (The Necessity for Processual Relational Sustainability)

(Reframing Sean Carroll's Quantized Materialism ala Processual Cosmology)

(Is Process Philosophy Enough without Process Theology?)

Where Spirit Meets Mind
(Have Worldly Philosophies Influenced Religion and Societies for Better or Worse?)


The Lure of Love
(The Bankruptcy of Evangelical Theology, Part 4)



What is the Gospel? It's about a God
who is love, who is in process with the world,
drawing all creation deeper into divine life.
- r.e. slater
 
The goal is not to discard the creeds but to reinterpret their insights through better metaphysical lenses.

The God of classical orthodoxy is often frozen in philosophical categories that no longer serve the church or the world.

Process theology offers a vibrant, scientifically coherent, and ethically compelling alternative that honors the living heart of the gospel.

The Grammar that Is God (Processual Verbs for God & God's Activity, Part 1)

From Fear to Freedom (Ten Beliefs Separating Evangelicals from Process Theology)

Becoming Moses (Interpreting Moses Literally and Processually)

Beyond Literalism. Towards Processualism (Literalism and the Bible vs. Processual Theology, Part 2)

Reading the Bible (Literalism and the Bible vs. Processual Theology, Part 1)

(Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point vs Whitehead's Processual Eschatology)


The God Who Becomes With Us (A Processual Theology Proper, Part 3, Sec 8)


Benediction: A Blessing for the Becoming (A Processual Theology Proper, Part 3, Sec 7)


The Call Forward (A Processual Theology Proper, Part 3, Sec 7)


A Prayer of the Possible (A Processual Theology Proper, Part 2, Sec 6)


Poets of Becoming (A Processual Theology Proper, Part 2, Sec 5)


The Companion God (A Processual Theology Proper, Part 2, Sec 4)

The Becoming (A Divine Resonance Model of Cosmology)

The Call of God to Align (A Process-Based Reorientation of Supernaturalism)

Harmonics of the Cosmos (The Universe as a Spectrum of Frequency)

The Timeless Weave of Scripture (cf. The Bible Beyond Literalism, Part 5)


Fate or Fortune? (Re-Imagining Thornton Wilder)

Meditation on Radiant Threads (Everyday Miracles: How They Work, part 4)

The Bridge (Examining Wilder's Question of Determinism)




Being and Becoming (cf. What Is Christian Humanism?)

The Lure of Becoming (cf. A Metamodern Synthesis between Teilhard de Chardin's
Cosmic Christ and Whitehead's Process Thought, Part 7)



THEOPOETIC POEMS





Everyday Attitudes (What Is In a Christian Label?)

We, the Vainglorious, Thy Holy Sentinels (The Future of Quantum AI)

(Radical Christian Process Theology, Part 4)


To the Unknown God of Radical Love (Radical Christian Process Theology, Part 2)

Creation (Odes to Creation, Life, Purpose...)

Seeing God in the Color of Blue


A Radical Democracy (Being a Radical Church of Refuge and Inclusivity)

 And Death Shall Go Before (Being a Radical Church of Refuge and Inclusivity)


In the (Processual) Beginning (The Quantum Physics of a Particle Universe)



God, the Poet (Envisioning a Process Relational Theology)



The Becoming of God (The Holy Trilogy)








 A Prayer  (Poems & Songs of Prayer)




Parable of the Prodigal Son
Luke 15:11-32 (ESV)

11 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he dividedhis property between them. 13 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. 14 And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to[a] one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. 16 And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.

17 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. 21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’[b] 22 But the father said to his servants,[c] ‘Bring quicklythe best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.23 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. 24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.

25 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’ 28 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him, 29 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.30 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

Footnotes
Luke 15:15 Greek joined himself to
Luke 15:21 Some manuscripts add treat me as one of your hired servants
Luke 15:22 Greek bondservants









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