An Existential Disjunctive - to live as if

Christian faith, as an existential orientation/interpretive stance (Christology/Pneumatology),

has normative implications. Beyond our practical and moral norms with their extrinsic

rewards, it introduces a new category of norms, the unitive, which are intrinsically

rewarding. These unitive norms provide suitable means for moral ends but their aim

transcends our practical and moral concerns.

As an interpretive stance, Christian faith fosters our imaginative participation in an intimate

relationship with the Trinity thus orienting our historical perspective eschatologically,

sanctifying our cultural aspirations theologically, empowering our societal institutions

ecclesiologically, healing our economic orders sacramentally and saving our political

endeavors soteriologically. And what singular reality orients, sanctifies, empowers, heals

and saves? Love. Love transforms our ultimate concerns. The norms of Christian love foster

our realization of solidarity with all of reality.

As an interpretive stance, Christian faith fosters our imaginative participation in an intimate

relationship with the Trinity thus orienting our historical perspective eschatologically,

sanctifying our cultural aspirations theologically, empowering our societal institutions

ecclesiologically, healing our economic orders sacramentally and saving our political

endeavors soteriologically. And what singular reality orients, sanctifies, empowers, heals

and saves? Love. Love transforms our ultimate concerns. The norms of Christian love foster

our realization of solidarity with all of reality.

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