"...secondary beatitudes can be realized as supersufficient glories (per a broadened aesthetic scope)."
Ah, so the hierarchies define 'secondary' beatitudes. Then OK. I mean, if everyone is participating in the eternal ascent into ever-increasing aesthetic enjoyment - sure. If we're talking about a hierarchy of diverse vocations or modes of expression, I'm in. The beauty of a stained-glass window depends upon all its contributing parts - different colors, different kinds of glass, metal for the framing, etc.
If this is what we're talking about, very cool. I think David M (unless I'm mistaken) is talking about a hierarchy of final participation that forever expresses abiding 'judgments' (including an eternal hell, so that eternal torment can be seen as the lowest level in a divine hierarchy of being).
I wrote this before seeing your reply. So, yeah, we're totally on the same page. Oh well, we'll have to discover some other creative tension between us to harvest more fruits!
Thanks, again, Tom. I hope you can tell how thoroughly I've incorporated your stances in my every refinement of my own.
I (idiosyncratically?) draw a distinction between beatific & theotic dynamics.
The beatific's monergic & essentially ordered to the objective end THAT we manifest God; it's subjective end or primary beatitude gifts a sufficiently abundant unitive enjoyment.
The theotic's tropically ordered objectively to HOW & how MANY ways we manifest God. It broadens our scope of subjective unitive enjoyment & supersufficiently gifts one more secondary beatitudes.
Postmortem theosis can certainly continue apace but an eternal perichoretic Christogony will leave us all only ever asymptotically instantiating the logoi of the Totus Christus.
While we all enjoy the same theotic limiting potencies, I see no reason that our antemortem character dispositions couldn't effect an hierarchical differentiation of God-agents, postmortem, as would be based on a metric of how many of those potencies we'll have already reduced to unitive acts.
That others may grow more intimate than I, Lord, grant me the grace to desire it, provided that I grow into that degree of intimacy & glory that I should.
As Teresa of Jesus prayed, stepping out of a mud puddle: "Lord, if you have so few close friends, just consider the way that You treat us!". That's what I'm thinking about whenever I pray the Litany of Humility and end with "Thanks, Lord, but I'm good!".
"...secondary beatitudes can be realized as supersufficient glories (per a broadened aesthetic scope)."
Ah, so the hierarchies define 'secondary' beatitudes. Then OK. I mean, if everyone is participating in the eternal ascent into ever-increasing aesthetic enjoyment - sure. If we're talking about a hierarchy of diverse vocations or modes of expression, I'm in. The beauty of a stained-glass window depends upon all its contributing parts - different colors, different kinds of glass, metal for the framing, etc.
If this is what we're talking about, very cool. I think David M (unless I'm mistaken) is talking about a hierarchy of final participation that forever expresses abiding 'judgments' (including an eternal hell, so that eternal torment can be seen as the lowest level in a divine hierarchy of being).
I wrote this before seeing your reply. So, yeah, we're totally on the same page. Oh well, we'll have to discover some other creative tension between us to harvest more fruits!
Thanks, again, Tom. I hope you can tell how thoroughly I've incorporated your stances in my every refinement of my own.
I (idiosyncratically?) draw a distinction between beatific & theotic dynamics.
The beatific's monergic & essentially ordered to the objective end THAT we manifest God; it's subjective end or primary beatitude gifts a sufficiently abundant unitive enjoyment.
The theotic's tropically ordered objectively to HOW & how MANY ways we manifest God. It broadens our scope of subjective unitive enjoyment & supersufficiently gifts one more secondary beatitudes.
Postmortem theosis can certainly continue apace but an eternal perichoretic Christogony will leave us all only ever asymptotically instantiating the logoi of the Totus Christus.
While we all enjoy the same theotic limiting potencies, I see no reason that our antemortem character dispositions couldn't effect an hierarchical differentiation of God-agents, postmortem, as would be based on a metric of how many of those potencies we'll have already reduced to unitive acts.
That others may grow more intimate than I, Lord, grant me the grace to desire it, provided that I grow into that degree of intimacy & glory that I should.
As Teresa of Jesus prayed, stepping out of a mud puddle: "Lord, if you have so few close friends, just consider the way that You treat us!". That's what I'm thinking about whenever I pray the Litany of Humility and end with "Thanks, Lord, but I'm good!".