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A Question of Balance?

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We believe that God is both transcendent and immanent. But we seem to pick a side.

Some choose to emphasize the transcendent and thus something like the Latin Mass ad Orientem: God is infinitely Holy and distinct from us out there somewhere.

Others choose to emphasize the immanent and something like the contemporary Mass facing the congregation. God is in out midst and in each one of us. We must give more attention to social justice.

The problem is getting fixated on either extreme to the exclusion of the other. There is more likely a continuum of where we stand on that choice. But it really is a question of balance.
 
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Why is this in the political sub forum?
To divide the Church. We know there's a place for both. As long as the Lord is calling the faithful to either one, we are all blessed.
 
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To divide the Church. We know there's a place for both. As long as the Lord is calling the faithful to either one, we are all blessed.
There is indeed a place for both, but in balance. Just as there is a place for both conservative and liberal views in society on the many issues we face as a global community. I may be wring but it seem to me that the Transcendent emphasis seems to also emphasize not only God out there but me here and you there. Easy then to step to me against you us against them. We need guns. On the other hand, the immanent emphasis goes to the other open border-ish extreme.. Jumps to an idealized solidarity that doesn't acknowledge the the complex dangers that exist in reality.
 
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