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The Human Order of Creation and Its Political Theology for the New Creation Distinguishing God's Integral Way of Life |
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Glossary of Key Terms |
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“affective polarization”: different from issue polarization, this concerns the feelings we have about the people on the other side of the political aisle, which explains why political conversations are so difficult, tense and unproductive (chap. 4:71).
the critical distinction for humans: the pivotal shift of persons from inner out to outer in to form this defining distinction that constructed human identity and function, from which evolved related formative human distinctions such as race, class and gender (chap. 4:91).
the engendering nexus: The Word’s gospel rooted in the covenant of love unfolds in this nexus legitimized just in God’s Rule of Law, thus the relational growth of the covenant of love is contingent on participants carefully following God’s Rule of Law (chap. 3:54).
herd immunity: the notion where the majority of the population has antibodies to resist infection from some prevailing virus (chap. 2:32).
integrated citizens: the essential dynamic of citizenship that clearly distinguishes God’s kingdom from all others, whereby the primary identity of God’s people is defined and their primary function is determined as integrated citizens, and thus unmistakably distinguished from surrounding identity and function (chap. 1:5).
integrated (whole) citizens: Jesus’ followers who live “in the world” in their integrated whole identity and function based on the uncommon peace (wholeness) that Jesus gives (chap. 1:7).
integrated (whole) culture: the everyday way of life of integrated citizens distinguished by the uncommon peace that Jesus gives in contrast to and even in conflict with the common peace “as the world gives” (chap. 1:7).
the integrating dynamic of just-nection: God’s justice is distinguished whole and God’s peace is experienced uncommon by the integration just in the whole-ly relational outcome of just-nection, the relational dynamic of which Jesus redeems, reconciles and transforms the relational connection required for justice of the human order in the integrally created and newly created whole-ly likeness of the Trinity (chap. 5:130).
the intimate equalizer: the new creation church family living together in wholeness by only transformed relationships integrally equalized and intimate (chap. 6:169).
just-nection: the right order of relationship together created by the triune God for whole persons having the right relational connection in his likeness (chap. 4:84).
minimalist disorder: the behavior of minimalists notably lacking direct involvement with the Word in covenant relationship together, but also far more active behavior occupied with secondary matters (chap. 3:49).
norm gymnastics: as truth decay evolves, the ambiguity of the bad is balanced with the good in order for the bad to circumvent its restrictions by rotating norms to form the balanced routine for the bad to prevail (chap.4:75).
the outer in: the pivotal shift from the beginning that reduced human identity and function reduced from their qualitative-relational nature from inner out to become quantified by the outer in based on quantitative terms (chap. 2:26).
the paradox of the whole gospel: the “bad and good” news composing the gospel constituted by the Word’s strategic action illuminated in the Word’s whole picture, which is contrary to the “good and bad” that evolved from the primordial garden (chap 4:69).
person-consciousness: the ongoing involvement of the inner-out person’s identity and function by their essence in the qualitative image and relational likeness of their Creator (chap. 2:27).
progressing survival: the subtle counter-relational workings of reductionism among Christians and churches to advance in their faith and progress in their ministry and mission, the pursuit of which converges with the innate need to survive and the competitive desire to succeed (chap. 2:36).
the qualitative relational compass: intrinsic to the Word’s uncompromised Rule of Law, this compass is vitally calibrated to clearly distinguish what is irreducibly and nonnegotiably primary in God’s creation (original and new) from all the secondary occupying human life (chap. 4:72; 5:118).
redemptive change: the vulnerable qualitative-relational process in which the old in us is relinquished in order for it to die, so that the new for, about and in us will rise (chap. 3:64).
the reducing syndrome of diakrino: the process of defining persons by outer-in distinctions and treating them differently to create relational barriers in a comparative system and stratified structure (chap. 6:159).
the ruling nexus: for the engendering nexus to truly grow the covenant of love relationship from the past to the future, this nexus must be integrated with the ruling nexus inscribed in the Word’s irreducible and nonnegotiable Rule of Law (chap. 3:54).
self-consciousness: the self-focused survival of the outer-in self’s identity and function by the dominance of a self-centered process (chap. 2:27.
self-ism: the composition of stereotypes underlying human life based on outer-in distinctions that become basic for defining human identity and determining human function, such that human persons are limited to and constrained in the particular stereotype depicting their self (chap. 2:31).
sin as reductionism: the view of sin that encompasses the reduction of the ontology and function of persons and relationships from their wholeness created in the qualitative image and relational likeness of the Trinity, which emerged from the beginning and has evolved since beyond a simplified sin as merely disobedience (chap. 2:24).
the relational progression: the relational process of the new creation that constitutes Jesus’ followers to be whole persons in relationship together integrally equalized and intimate in wholeness, and thus who are the penultimate witnesses of his essential workers (chap. 7:174).
the status quo app: the perceptual lens and interpretive framework that are shaped by the existing status quo, which becomes the prevailing application used for status- ing in quo and makes it easier to engage in it (chap. 4:88).
the synergism of the Word: the reality of the Word’s whole big picture is always greater than the sum of no matter what parts are pieced together (chap. 3:47).
three circumventing phenomena: the existential bad in human life keeps evolving as the bad is reinforced and sustained by practice of these phenomena (chap. 4:70).
“truth decay”: this evolving reality from the three circumventing phenomena prevents different views and opposing sides from agreeing on existing facts common to all of them (chap. 4:70).
truth gymnastics: the evolvement of truth decay, in which the ambiguity of the bad is balanced with the good in order for the bad to circumvent its restrictions by flipping around &/or over the truth to form the balanced routine for the bad to prevail (chap. 4:75).
the uncommon good: by declaring the bad news of the gospel, the Word exposed, clarified and corrected the assumptions of the common good, which extended further and unfolded deeper integrally with the good news proclaiming the uncommon good distinguished by only the Word’s whole gospel (chap. 5:116).
the whole big picture: the theological nexus of the past and the future of the Word’s theological trajectory and relational path constituted, embodied and enacted that reveal the whole-ly Trinity and the Word’s whole-ly way of life (chap. 3:48).
whole-ly: is the integration of whole and holy (uncommon) that distinguishes the whole- ly God and the Word’s way for us to be distinguished whole-ly unequivocally in likeness “just as the Trinity is,” which is contrary to the fragmentary and common in all of human life (chap. 1:10-11).
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