Page Text: God as Mother, God as Child, as well as Father
Suffering is wages for sin
Suffering is birth pains of universe—all beings suffer
Death is wages for sin
Death is a natural event, a prelude to recycling and rebirth
Introspective in its psychology
Cosmic (connecting psyche to cosmos) in its psychology
Emphasizes introvert meditation
Emphasizes art as meditation (also known as extrovert meditation)
Science is unimportant
Science, by teaching us about Nature, teaches us about the Creator
Dualistic (either/or)
Spirit is in opposition to matter
Spirit and matter form a “wonderful communion” (Aquinas)
“Spirit is whatever is not matter” (Augustine)
Spirit is the ‘elan” in everything (Aquinas)
Suspicious of the body and violent in its body/soul imagery: “Soul makes war with the body” (Augustine)
Welcoming of body and gentle in its body/soul imagery: “soul loves the body” (Eckhart)
“Humility is to despise yourself” (Tanquerry)
Humility is to befriend one’s earthiness (humus). “Holy people draw to themselves all that is earthy.” (Hildegard)
Be in control