<% @LANGUAGE=VBScript %> <%Response.Expires=30%> Meditation
Fall and Redemption Creation-centered
  • Faith is "thinking with assent"
  • Passion is a curse.
  • Mortification of the body
  • Suffering is wages for sin.
  • Death is wages for sin
  • Holiness is the quest for perfection.
  • Dualistic (either/or).
  • Suspicious of the body and violent in its body/soul imagery
  • Humility is to "despise yourself"
  • Pessimistic
  • Elitist
  • Particular
  • Faith is trust.
  • Passion is a blessing
  • Discipline toward birthing
  • Suffering is the birth pangs of the universe.
  • Death is a natural event.
  • Holiness is cosmic hospitality.
  • Dialectical (both/and)
  • Welcoming of the body and gentle in its body/soul imagery.
  • Humility is to befriend one's earthiness.
  • Hopeful
  • For the many.
  • Universalist.
from Christian Mysticism. Manuela Dunn Mascetti.