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..., and AND CULTURE challenge to the moral and spiritual value affirm ing th e ontological value and cre­ of our entire way of life. In a chapter appro­ THE PARTICIPATORY TURN: SPIRITUALITY, ative im pact o f spiritual w orlds a n d real­ priately entitled “Values...

... is doubtful and this although known, the and knower the between commonality actually be producing truth because there maybe no ontological ontological no maybe there because might truth chemistry producing...

... (e.g., rational, imaginal, somatic, vital, aesthetic) with both the creative unfolding of the mystery and the subtle entities or energies in the enactment — or “bringing forth” — of ontologically rich religious worlds. In other words, the participatory approach presents an enactive understanding...

... contemplation of a disembodied subject. But in his radical critique of Heidegger’s and Husserl’s obsession with the ontological issues of Being and totality—an obsession he traced back as far as the Greek origins of Western philosophy—Levinas’s particular Jewish identity explicitly came to the fore...

... some of his students regain their faith and “to understand better the way the world unfolds.” START WITH THE BELIEF THAT WE PERCEIVE THE WORLD AS A COLLECTION OF things—mostly static, isolated objects that interact but remain separate. Being is the core of that ontology. I...

... and spiritual value affirm ing th e ontological value and cre­ of our entire way of life. In a chapter appro­ THE PARTICIPATORY TURN: SPIRITUALITY, ative im pact o f spiritual w orlds a n d real­ priately entitled “Values,” the authors ex­ MYSTICISM, RELIGIOUS STUDIES...

... theology and ethics briefly described above, as well as on a particular conceptualization of divine ontology whose central tenets are justice and mercy. These values, in turn, are considered to be sources of universal moral values that are to be extended to and applicable equally to all of humanity...

... sibility to throw himself into showing how Marxism had become false to its own human as­ human own its to false become had Marxism how showing into himself throw to sibility that relations an hum of actual experience qualitative subjective, the to priority ontological Union’s...

.... For me, this debate resonates with the issues I explored in my book Jewish Renewal , where I sought to understand elements of Torah that seem to ontologize cruelty into an aspect of God (for example, God’s command to sacrifice Isaac). I’d like to invite our readers to consider how the concerns about...

... for mutual recognition, our inherited legal culture denies this desire by assuming we are ontologically separated individuals whose bond is purely after the fact and voluntary, rather than constitutive of who we are in our very essence before we even become individuals. The liberal paradigm supported...

... of their previous conditioning (at least temporarily—much more than the hot moment of a movement’s emergence is required to solidify a new ontological ground like this). And we will return to this later in this book. But the point to be emphasized here in this first chapter is that the desire for mutual...

... her/ his/its partner in healing and transforming the world in accord with its potential to be loving, caring, generous, just, etc. This is an account of how God manifests in our lives. But it doesn’t answer the ontological questions: What is this Being? Is it a separate being from us, or is it simply...

... and is currently maintained. For the Rav, Torah has ultimate ontological significance—that is, it is the very basis of existence. Hartman’s problem with the nature of traditional theology, especially as interpreted by the Rav, is that it does not sufficiently stress human adequacy, and that it often seems...

..., the consciousness of others can do the same, as physician and author Larry Dossey has successfully shown. This is gooey ontology, but there is a participatory dynamic at work: one can think/will oneself and others into and out of health. The wisdom of cognitive psychology tells us that those thoughts...

... that biblical texts say God abuses, but are these texts to be taken as ontological statements about divine character or agency? In my work on Jeremiah, I have argued that the prophet’s fire and brimstone is a form of contextual theology. The abusive God functions to mirror experiences of trauma, to create...

..., the 1960s and the parallel ontological universe it gave birth to also have generated a powerful defensive social reaction — in Freudian terms, the reaction that the superego, in defense of the ego, always has to the transcendent longings of the id. Within the social-spiritual way of seeing the world...

...? How can we produce a vocabulary that links environmental justice to the digital age? Kevin Huang Classroom teachers can begin to overcome the the West’s vision of isolated entities by presenting an ontology of relationship, emergence, and interdependence. This paradigm shift can...

... take revelation seriously (and one in that God’s power and ontological reality are unaffected by revelation is the key to resolving the apparent conundrum Kant time. Perhaps a change in perspective will allow us to discover the describes)—are spared the anguish that results from...

.... The city’s obligation to the literal stranger becomes an obligation to the ontological Other in this formulation. The desert wilderness becomes the liminal, interstitial gaps in our ethical consciousness. A dead body becomes a suffering body in our midst. He weaves a modern-day midrashic tapestry out...

... of a God who has temporal beginning. That the eternal God is before all time created the cosmos, as countless people from the Hebrew Bible does not mean a temporal but an ontological priority. on—Jews, Christians, and Muslims, but also many others—have Today, to believe in the creator of the world...