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Going Beyond a Dialogue with Jürgen Moltmann regarding His Understanding on Daodejing
Yoshida, Megumi
Yoshida, Megumi
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"Exploring Moltmann’s perichoresis and dao in Daodejing sees a radical difference between how God’s transcendence and immanence are understood by Moltmann and by North East Asian philosophers as shown in their conception of yiduo bufenguan (the inseparability of the one and the many, of continuity and multiplicity) in cosmological context. Moltmann’s perichoresis considers the dynamic interpenetration as well as independence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Triune God. His perichoresis yields new possibilities when he applied perichoresis to God’s activities in the “God–human/creation” matrix, thus linking his theology with North East Asian philosophy, which has a traditional view of inseparability of transcendence and immanence, and tian (heaven) with wanwu (all things on earth, literally “ten thousand things”). However, when he applied perichoresis to the “perichoresis in the God–human/creation” matrix, apparently he had done insufficient justice to the inseparability of the one and the many. The perception is that, somehow, he is still stuck in the traditional Western “transcendence/immanence” mould. Megumi Yoshida has tried to use Moltmann’s reference to “love” as a medium to maintain the perichoresis of the One and of the many in which both maintain their identity and, simultaneously, their inseparability which makes sense of the perichoresis of the God–human/creation matrix."
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2009
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