tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post1505915909877604426..comments2024-02-19T10:15:55.380+00:00Comments on CAUTE — Making Footprints Not Blueprints: Religion is not a delusion but a quest for 'home'. Let's locate this here on earth, says Peter ThompsonAndrew James Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693417061963197121noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post-57598726408365886852010-05-05T10:17:55.853+01:002010-05-05T10:17:55.853+01:00A concept that I found useful is the difference be...A concept that I found useful is the difference between epistemological transcendence (the "here-on-earth" variety, for example the transcendence of individuality by immersion in community, or in the Divine) and ontological transcendence (the idea that the Divine is outside the universe).Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post-57935086410284384882010-04-30T10:32:14.028+01:002010-04-30T10:32:14.028+01:00Dear Robin,
The reference to locating religion on...Dear Robin,<br /><br />The reference to locating religion on earth is part of Bloch's overall desire to "transcend without transcendence" - to "root" religion explicitly in this world rather than in a transcendent realm of God. That's harder to do than I ever imagined and this blog has become a record of my own struggles to do that in a way appropriate to my own time and place.Andrew James Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693417061963197121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post-14657739513022686962010-04-29T21:24:22.246+01:002010-04-29T21:24:22.246+01:00"Religion is not a delusion but a quest for &..."Religion is not a delusion but a quest for 'home'. Let's locate this here on earth, says Peter Thompson"<br /><br />Where else would we locate it?Robin Edgarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208142626285495635noreply@blogger.com