[Oe List ...] On getting on with it

[Randy Williams via OE]

I think George is saying that grace is "not" an additive that some people occasionally merit. Where I think George may offer an additional insight that perhaps Tillich may not have included is in saying that grace is an ever-present reality "inherent in creation" rather than something that is present only when it "happens" or "doesn't happen" in the form of being "struck by grace." George can speak for himself, but that's what I heard him saying, and I agree. 
Randy

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> On Jan 23, 2017, at 7:43 AM, Susan Fertig via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> Your fourth paragraph seems to contradict the the whole point of the Tillich paper we used in RS-1. "Merit???"
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> Otherwise I can mostly agree with your thoughtful missive.
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> Susan
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> Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Droid
> On Jan 23, 2017 6:10 AM, George Holcombe via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> Ever since Joe’s insistence that “all is good” has rattled around in my head (a long time) it has forced me to re-image and rethink my whole life whenever adversity or what I call “turn arounds” like Trump’s election have happened, or when I began to realize what slavery was, or experienced some of the plight of the 3rd world.  I”ve recently found Rohr’s work helpful in getting on with life and trying to do “the Dance,” by not retreating into the comfort of a “spirituality” but acting. Here is a piece I’ve found as an introduction to the exercise.
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> “Instead of the small god we seem stuck with in our current (and dying) paradigm, usually preoccupied with exclusion, The Trinitarian Revolution reveals God as with us in all of life instead of standing on the sidelines, always critiquing which things belong and which things don’t.
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> The Trinitarian Revolution reveals God as always involved instead of the in-and-out deity that leaves most of humanity “orphaned” much of the time (19. See John 14:18).
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> Theologically, of course, this revolution repositions grace as inherent to creation, not as occasional additive that some people occasionally merit.
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> If this revolution has always been quietly present, like yeast in the dough of our rising spirituality, it might help us understand the hopeful and positive “adoption” and “inheritance” theologies of Paul (20. See, for example, Romans 88:14-17; Galatians 4: 5-7; Ephesians 1:5,14) and the Eastern Fathers over the later, punitive images of God that have dominated the Western church.
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> This God is the very one whom we have names “Trinity” -the flow who flows through everything, without exception, and who has done so since the beginning.
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> Thus, everything is holy, for those who have learned how to see.”. The Divine Dance Richard Rhor p. 37
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