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I misquoted my source up above. The quotation begins "Communicatio idiomatum...In Christian theology..." and it was my own authority for the claim that "what can be said of one member of the trinity can be said of the others", although I credit Karl…
I certainly enjoy reading paragraphs that support each other using terms that are defined and then consistently used.
But I wonder if "perichoresis" (the disease?) is the Latin communicatio idiomati: "what can be said of one member of the trinity ca…
Which two sentences?
What do you make of "consciousness"? How can one be "in step with" it?
An argument is a claim, some evidence, and a statement of its significance--why someone should listen to it. Your argument in the last paragraph is that some…
You've identified my founding principle--or the observation I made that led to this aggressive criticism, this modeling of the life, universe, and everything.
The principle is that, as I put it to myself in 1976, when on a field term in Chicago (a s…
You ought to run all this you suggest by a few Catholics--Roman variety. They've never departed from trinitarianism, probably because they've never, for the most part, thought about it except as a prop of triumphalism. But you want to embrace it rat…
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- At 11:52am on May 25, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I find peace in the Psalms. David knew what it was to suffer and search for the God of Deliverance. Our truisms about God can seem so abstract, but I get a sense of personal hands on approach to prayer from them. If God is going to let me live in this world then I want to find the kingdom of God here on earth and my place in it, not just dream of the hereafter. Now needs to be improving to have faith in a better tomorrow.
- At 3:17pm on May 21, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I had a friend tell me the other day who enjoys games like dungeons and dragons that if you are always facing demons, it is demons you get to know. I realized at least when I wrestle with angels like Jacob did in the bible then it is angels I get to know. It shows because I started a discussion in the spiritual directors group called Angels Are With Us. In the same way when it is God I struggle to know through personal experience and not just through the faith of others, then it is God I come to know.
- At 11:58am on May 20, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I enjoyed your comment. I volunteer as our church librarian. We have the abstractions down on what it takes to love God and love our neighbor, but knowing how to apply it to our every day life so that all of life is holy no matter how trivial is a challenge I have set for myself. Life and its paradoxes ...
- At 2:30pm on May 17, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I enjoyed DOC enough that we are attempting to start an emergence group among members at the church I attend to get know each other and become better friends.
- At 3:34pm on May 15, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I was talking about myself. I see my life in a certain way. I am so rarely given the opportunity to explain how I see life and it is so rarely a repeat of the newspaper, or school, or work. The only put down I have of others both those who claim Jesus as their Savior and those who don't is they generally don't want to listen to my point of view. I joined a group last winter here at my church called Disciples of Christ. Mother Debbie started off with a spiritual subject, and then we broke into small groups to take turns sharing and listen to each other with compassion. I was a little late joining a group that had been together for several weeks. It was a total blow up trying to get a word in edge wise. My opinion was criticized, I was told I was wrong, a member threatened to walk out because of me, so I walked out since I was the new member. Mother Debbie spent all week getting us back together again. We did better after that and I did complete the course.
- At 12:46pm on May 15, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I have found taking life literally easier said than done especially when it is what I observe in front of me, contrasted with letting the newspaper tell you what is, or your friends, or family patterns and beliefs, or what you were tested on at school to get the grade, or what your boss expect you to say to keep your job. Contradictions abound between what I know I am expected to say and what I see, hear and experience. I find peace in pondering God's truth which is the ultimate reality, though hard to see and even harder to be.
- At 12:05pm on May 13, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- Your photograph is to be taken literally. I can see there are two different people. So what do you see as your mission in Christ?
- At 4:07pm on May 10, 2009,
Heidi Hileman said…
- I am very interested in why you choose the picture you did for your profile. Which one are you, or are you both?
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