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Meeting God in History, Relativity, and Pluralism

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Porter, Andrew P. (1946-). Meeting God In History, Relativity, and Pluralism. Andrew P. Porter. 2006. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, http://cdm15837.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15837coll10/id/9.

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Porter, A. (2006). Meeting God in History, Relativity, and Pluralism. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, http://cdm15837.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15837coll10/id/9.

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Porter, Andrew P. (1946-). Meeting God In History, Relativity, and Pluralism. Andrew P. Porter. 2006. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, http://cdm15837.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15837coll10/id/9.

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  • Thesis (M.T.S.)--Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Originally submitted in 1980. Revised in 2006. BT102 .P594. From the abstract,"The preliminary lemma of this thesis is that we meet God in circumstances of exposure, limitation, and need. Richard Niebuhr’s conception of radical monotheism is that the causes for which we live (our “gods”) all die, and that radical monotheism is to embrace this situation rather than to reject it. Thus all of life is good, and not only some of it. The “bad,” that which we would prefer not to experience, we can learn in radical monotheism to accept as good. That “bad” may be conceptualized under three heads, as exposure, limitation, and need. Exposure is of the human self, as he is, to himself and others, for all to see. Limitation, or contingency, is simply that set of givens within which we live, whether laws of nature or circumstances of other people. Need, one’s own or another’s, is the lack of material or spiritual wherewithal for life. Response to each of these is with the cognitive, active, and emotive aspects of the self. Radical faith meets exposure with confession, repentance, remorse, and joy. Faith meets limitation with innovation, initiative, grief and gratitude. Need is met by opening eyes, hands, and heart to one’s neighbor, ending in celebration and fellowship. In each case, what was initially seen as “bad,” unwelcome, is turned into something welcome, the source of new life."
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