John O'Neill on the Cosmotheandric Vision
* Article: TOWARDS A FULLER COSMOTHEANDRIC VISION. By John O'neill.
URL = https://www.academia.edu/27518275/TOWARDS_A_FULLER_COSMOTHEANDRIC_VISION
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"I will extend Raimon Panikkar's cosmotheandric trinitarian philosophy to the work of four contemporary philosophers.
His vision is that the three irreducible, inter-independent, constitutive dimensions of reality are the cosmic, the divine and the human. William Franke shows the ambiguities through the history of western apophatic discourse over whether it entails an experience of total union in the indistinctness of the One or rather the shock of absolute alterity. Both currents of unity and difference cannot be absolutely distinguished from each other and both are inadequate for articulating what cannot be said. They have links with negative theology eg Marion. The future of apophasis can point beyond what is said to what is done.
Richard Kearney with his hermeneutic narrative approach speaks of welcoming God in hospitality to the stranger, the Other, after passing through atheism-God after God. John Caputo writes of cosmopoetics as a song sung in response to calls from the cosmos, in which religious experiences are grace-filled this-worldly events. These continental philosophers together show ways in which Panikkar's cosmotheandric vision of the constitutive interconnectedness of the divine, (Franke and Marion), the human (Kearney) and the cosmic (Caputo) , can be extended and expanded. Acknowledgement of the presence of the divine in humanity and the world is a potent recognition of human dignity and a call to social justice for all as well as to care for the planet."