--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand the title of the thread based > upon the article. The *Fundie* concept of God is Transcendental > which Bishop Spong seemed to agree with.
He seems to me to be objecting to the fundie attempt to nail God down by insisting that verbal descriptions of God's nature and actions be taken literally, rather than as metaphor. A God that can be nailed down in words can't be a purely transcendent God. On the other hand, an Advaitin God, a la Brahman, encompasses all that is without exception, so you couldn't really say it wasn't nail-downable... > It sounded to me that Bishop Spong could not agree > with the Secular Humanists concept of God. He doesn't agree with either the Secular Humanists (whose concept of God is that there is no God) or with the fundies. Contra the Secular Humanists, he believes the term "God" has a real referent; contra the fundamentalists, he believes that referent is experiential but indescribable and undogmatizable (as I understand what he's saying). Bishop Spong is possibly at the very top of my list of folks I'd like to sit down with over a pitcher of beer.
