New Speculative Post & Some Thoughts
We just posted a new entry in the current loose series on Truth in Apprehensible Reality. It’s very different from the others because it takes on Ultimate Reality as part of a larger metaphysics project. It’s also unusual because the subject is theological. The Band stays out of doctrinal questions beyond assessing their logical fit with the source text and observable reality. If something is Biblically consistent, further judgment is an act of faith.
The Trinity was something we’ve been thinking about for our own reasons. Most importantly, to clarify our own belief. We also frequent spaces where it comes up too often, and working through it may have some value there. Then there’s the larger project. We started a metaphysics book to collect the rambling insights from the blog in one place. The first chapter is previewed on the blog. Whet we found is that our mental picture from the posts needed sharpening to fit the systematic coherence of book chapters. Ultimate Reality is one place in particular. The thoughts here will eventually be refined but there’s a way to go. This is a good start.
There is no plan to make theological topics more of a thing than they have been. We have neither the calling nor the cant. Our project remains a practical description of what we can know and how we can know it about the reality we are born into. We find homologies between that and the Bible rewarding, but we are not offering an alternative One True! interpretation. The plan is to stay with our framework for general applicability. The Band has has a slight majority non-Western traffic, telling us that basic observation and reasoning has broad value. We respect that, and intend to stay the course. It’s just personally fulfilling to glimpse a shadow of the Truth through our darkling glass.
The Trinity through the Ontological Hierarchy + Thoughts on Ultimate Reality