Comments on: Intimacy with Godde: summary session 1 & 2 http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/intimacy-with-godde-summary-session-1-2/ Emergent Expressions of Spirituality in the Cape Town area Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: nic paton http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/intimacy-with-godde-summary-session-1-2/#comment-325 nic paton Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:08:26 +0000 http://capeconversation.wordpress.com/?p=122#comment-325 I do like the tryptich you propose. It helps clarify what we might be looking for in the concept "presence of God." I am reminded of 2 other related schemas. Joseph Cambell says God presences in 3 places : - Universe (macrocosm) - Soul (microcosm) - Liturgy (mesocosm) Then there is the classic categories - Imminance (God is in all things) - Transcendance (God is wholly other) The most tricky one is not surprizingly the manifest presence. This involves expectancy, risk, and potential discomfort. But that is after all what all intimacy is about. Thanks Tim - it's good work. I do like the tryptich you propose. It helps clarify what we might be looking for in the concept “presence of God.”

I am reminded of 2 other related schemas.
Joseph Cambell says God presences in 3 places :
- Universe (macrocosm)
- Soul (microcosm)
- Liturgy (mesocosm)

Then there is the classic categories
- Imminance (God is in all things)
- Transcendance (God is wholly other)

The most tricky one is not surprizingly the manifest presence. This involves expectancy, risk, and potential discomfort. But that is after all what all intimacy is about.

Thanks Tim – it’s good work.

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