Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 23:07:38 +0100
From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
Subject: RE: Tutu


Rene, you wrote:

>   Hebel explicitly opts for a sensible god, a supersensible one is of no
>use for
>   the people. The former will also miss the latter's perfections, so that
>when
>   a storm or a war comes, he is in there too.

Yet maybe we can, with Bhaskar, conceive the reality of god (as the
divine, the absolute) also as the dialectical experience and awareness
of both the sensible (immanent) and supersensible (transcendent) reality
together. He writes:

     "The fact that God or the absolute is unbounded does not mean
     that it cannot be experienced. It can be experienced *in* unbounded
     beauty, love, power and so on. .... what is experienced is both God,
     the absolute, the unbounded, *and*, as the essential basis of that
     experience, the ingredient categorial strucure or essential nature of
     man. [From East to West: p.46]

>   But now I don't understand your optimism anymore.

Don't worry about my optimism Rene, i've travelled Africa from North
to South and learned one thing: When God swings, Africa dances. When
Africa dances, God swings.

yours,
Jan

"Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity" - Tutu




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