Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy includes everything:
“I” equals self and consciousness
“It” equals body and organism
“We” equals culture and worldview
“Its” equals social systems and environment
Jesus also included everything:
he saw humans as creatures alongside other creatures
flowers/sparrows/foxes – Jesus saw humans as a very important
part of nature but not above or separate from it:
“All things bright and beautiful
all creatures great and small
all things wise and wonderful
the Lord God made them all”
– United Church of Canada children’s hymn
John Macquarrie, the great Anglican theologian, used objective natural law
to challenge the relativism/subjectivism of existentialists –
there needs to be a dialectical tension between subjective authenticity
which Buddhism/Confucianism/and particularly Jesus advanced
and objective/public/universal values derived from nature and its laws –
we need to include both subjectivism and objectivism
the Church and its sacraments were meant to be divine invitations
to meaningfully explore how everything is interconnected/related
but sometimes it devolves into just an institution
with rituals that command legal observance
and the objective dominates the subjective
it was Ambrose’s ability to subjectively/symbolically
interpret Old Testament passages about violence
Augustine had taken objectively/literally
that began to create cracks in Augustine’s Manichean/
anti-Catholic stance until he was converted to the Church
the objective physical sciences may see the movement of evolution
towards greater complexity and consciousness
as biogenesis or cosmogenesis
but in subjective Christian terms it is Christogenesis
the coming to be and unfolding of the Cosmic Christ
the Church as the Universal Beloved Community was meant to be
the instrument of, and integral to, Christogenesis
the drawing together of all creatures and all things–
the I/It/We/Its.
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