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Our participatory imaginations gift us, integrally & relationally, unity,
beauty, goodness, freedom & truth, forming our dispositions (senses
& sensibilities) toward various ways of belonging, desiring, behaving,
transcending & believing, as expressed in our attitudes regarding &
personal commitments to others, the cosmos, God & even our own selves,
as told & retold in our stories.

One, who’s thus properly disposed & committed, can then imaginatively
engage others thru inspired storytelling, thereby, in turn, fostering others’
healthy participations, dispositions & commitments.

Such storytelling may, more or less, lend itself to a more rigorous cognitive
map-making, foundationally, which is to say, historically, exegetically,
scientifically, philosophically & metaphysically. Theologically, such
foundations can then systematically underwrite our ecclesiologies,
soteriologies, sacramentologies, sophiologies & eschatologies.

There are countless pastors, homilists & spiritual directors from diverse
faith traditions, who’ve articulated robustly pneumatological ecclesiologies,
radically inclusive soteriologies, profusely incarnational sacramentologies,
remarkably polydoxic sophiologies & universally efficacious eschatologies -
as awakened & enlivened by human solidarity & compassion & retold in
personal stories, thus implicitly grounded in their collective participatory
imaginations.

Some are better than others, when it comes to explicitly mapping such
dispositions, systematically & foundationally. Make no mistake, though, it
can be done, especially, it seems to me, by those who recognize certain
resonances between Franciscan, Scotist sensibilities & Eastern Orthodox
sophiological approaches.

For example, however harshly one might wish to critique certain of Fr

Richard Rohr’s explicit foundational apologetics, far more importantly &
deserving of way more emphasis, implicit in the collective oeuvre of his
lifetime’s ministry, is precisely such an ecclesiology, soteriology,
sacramentology, sophiology & eschatology that I would to defend in my
Retreblement: A Systematic Apocatastasis & Pneumatological
Missiology.

This is to suggest that one shouldn't ever miss the concrete, dispositional,
participatory theophanic, theopoetic, theopoietic & theotic forests for the
abstract, propositional, cognitive theological, metaphysical trees. As it is,
robustly metaphysical descriptions & rigorous theological formulations
necessarily elude us, in principle, while vaguely semantical references &
broad heuristical contours guide us, in practice. Following Ignatius, we
must charitably presuppose the most orthodox interpretations of our
theological interlocutors, not reflexively & habitually construing
ambiguities & inadequate or inartful expressions against them.

Integrally, Fr. Rohr’s robustly pneumatological ecclesiology, radically

inclusive soteriology, profusely incarnational sacramentology, remarkably
polydoxic sophiology & universally efficacious eschatology are grounded in
his Franciscan (common) sensibilities, Scotistic meta-heuristic (common)
sensicalities & Eastern sympathies, both Orthodoxy’s sophiological
tradition as well as the Orient’s nondual traditions. All of these presuppose,
then, certain outlooks, theologically (i.e. paterological, Christological,
pneumatological & Trinitological approaches) and anthropologically (as,
continuous with all vestigia Dei & uniquely as imagines Dei, theotic
intimacization invites each person to progress via similitudo Dei).

To wit:

A. implicatory trinitarian theology (of divine esse naturale):

 1) interpersonal propria
 2) intimate idiomata
 3) invitatory (ad intra ur-kenosis) relata

B. intertwined temporal missions of creation, conservation &

consummation (mutually entailing acts of ad extra kenosis) via tri-
personal presences (multi-form unitive revelations, i.e. mutual intimaci-
zations not mani-fold encounters of separate exemplifications), where

C. inseparable "opera ad extra" are tri-personal while also especially

revealing of particular exemplifications via their "proper roles" where the

D. immensity of the divine universal presence, which is variously

im/mediate, in/visible & intense, the effects of which are tri-personally
operative as well as personally appropriated in the theophanic operations of
our creaturely "exitus" or production from God in divine creation, i.e.
trinitologically & anthropologically ... or as an
E. intensity of the particular divine presence via hypostatic
extensions, the effects of which are - not only tri-personally operative &
personally appropriated, but - personally "proper," i.e. united to a given
divine exemplification, in the theotic missions of our creaturely "reditus"
or return to God in divine consummation, i.e. sophiologically &
eschatologically ... with the

F. immediacy (Emmanuel, God is with us!) of the divine mercy &

urgency of its prompt succor, bringing about manifold & multiform
proleptic creaturely realizations of the divine telos, as it's entailed in these
theotic missions. Such realizations anticipate & guarantee the divine
missions' universal efficacy, ecclesiologically & sacramentally, thereby
effecting - in this eternal now - our creaturely salvation, redemption &
reconciliation by God through divine conservation, i.e soteriologically.

G. implicated theological anthropology (of divine esse intentionale):

 1) indwelling vestigia
 2) imaginal uniqueness (essential nature of imago Dei)
 3) intentional & incremental theosis (dynamical & progressive
intimaci-zation of secondary nature of kenotic similitudo Dei)

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