Transcendence and Emergence

We’ve talked about transcendence a lot, including especially here and here.  It is a top-down understanding of phenomena we observe, or consider through rational thought, that can’t be explained purely as matter in motion.  The utility of a chair; the beauty of a painting; the harmony of music, are all emergent properties of the movement of […]

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The Form of the Forms

For many Christians, the existence of God is self-evident, reconfirmed in a thousand ways, and so there’s a tendency not to spend too much time on the introductory course, the “why I know there’s a God 101” course.  It’s good to do so, however. Let’s consider now the purpose and design we instinctively impute to […]

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New York Public Library

We’ve talked a lot about “transcendence” on this site.  “Transcendent” is from the Latin transcendere, “climb over, surpass.”  We’ve used it often here in its usual sense of the supernatural “transcending” the natural, such as by experience of an interior contact with a numinous realm: the felt experience of God. This is being written in […]

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