Today Was a Good Day
And here's the reasons why.
1. Read an article by John Cobb and figured out why my theology makes me a process theologian.
"Process thought understands the totality of reality as being far richer and more complex than any individual or culture can ever appreciate or realize. Each culture highlights certain features of the whole and learns much about that. The features highlighted in cultures differ. What they come to know in their attention to these different features of the totality is, or can be, mutually complementary. To learn what another culture has discovered does not necessarily conflict with affirming the full truth of what one's own culture has learned."
From John Cobb's "Wesley the Process Theologian"
2. Margorie Suchocki gave a lecture in my Christian Traditions class about John Wesley and his notion of Christian perfection. I love being Methodist. Various notes follows. If you are unfamiliar with Wesley, you'll probably be confused.
- Salvation is a house, and justification by faith is the door to let you in. House is sanctification = love. Justification allows you to become a loving human being. Loving human being= the person you were created to be. Salvation= going through the door to live a life of love.
- Because God is invisible, we must seek God in the visible. The only way to love God is to love one another.
-To be made in the image of God is to love. Image of God involves fully developing your understanding (to use reason to understand God), affections(to use sense of caring to love others and God), and body (to be healthy to better serve God).
- Summary of above: to BECOME the best person you can possibly be to love God through love of neighbor
-Responsible not just for your own development, but also aide development of others, sanctification has a very social element.
-Christian Perfection=to grow in the Capacity to Love, each to their own abilities
- Capacities are limited, but not to be used as an excuse to not push those limits to our full potential.
- Accor to John Wesley, Pride= the refusal to learn from someone else
- Accor to John Wesley, Disagreements in opinion are opportunities to love one another
3. All this affirms just why I am at Claremont and not St. Paul. (Nothing against it, just not for me.)
1. Read an article by John Cobb and figured out why my theology makes me a process theologian.
"Process thought understands the totality of reality as being far richer and more complex than any individual or culture can ever appreciate or realize. Each culture highlights certain features of the whole and learns much about that. The features highlighted in cultures differ. What they come to know in their attention to these different features of the totality is, or can be, mutually complementary. To learn what another culture has discovered does not necessarily conflict with affirming the full truth of what one's own culture has learned."
From John Cobb's "Wesley the Process Theologian"
2. Margorie Suchocki gave a lecture in my Christian Traditions class about John Wesley and his notion of Christian perfection. I love being Methodist. Various notes follows. If you are unfamiliar with Wesley, you'll probably be confused.
- Salvation is a house, and justification by faith is the door to let you in. House is sanctification = love. Justification allows you to become a loving human being. Loving human being= the person you were created to be. Salvation= going through the door to live a life of love.
- Because God is invisible, we must seek God in the visible. The only way to love God is to love one another.
-To be made in the image of God is to love. Image of God involves fully developing your understanding (to use reason to understand God), affections(to use sense of caring to love others and God), and body (to be healthy to better serve God).
- Summary of above: to BECOME the best person you can possibly be to love God through love of neighbor
-Responsible not just for your own development, but also aide development of others, sanctification has a very social element.
-Christian Perfection=to grow in the Capacity to Love, each to their own abilities
- Capacities are limited, but not to be used as an excuse to not push those limits to our full potential.
- Accor to John Wesley, Pride= the refusal to learn from someone else
- Accor to John Wesley, Disagreements in opinion are opportunities to love one another
3. All this affirms just why I am at Claremont and not St. Paul. (Nothing against it, just not for me.)