Who is God for you? Pick two (2) concepts from Haught with which you most resonate and one (1) from the Biblical narrative and explain (i.e. What is Haught saying? AND Why does this resonate with you?). Include a quote (and citation) to support each concept (= 3 quotes with citations). (30 pts)
NOTE 1: The example from the Biblical narrative should relate to one of the concepts you choose from Haught.
NOTE 2: Each concept should be covered in approximately 100 words (exclusive of quotes.)
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-American-Bible-Revised-Edition-NABRE-Bible/ (This is the link for the bible that you should use)
If there are quotes in the ppt that are related, please use the ones in the ppt.
Here are some examples of quotes in Haught’s book:
– “The reason we can have the courage to open ourselves to the depth, to accept our solitude, is that there is an ultimate ground to our existence, there is an ultimate companionship to our aloneness.” (p. 18)
– “Religion is the symbolic (and, at times, ritualistic) expression of the shared experience of this depth that has made itself transparent to human consciousness.” (p. 22)
“As in the case of depth, the future is not only an abyss from which we understandably recoil; it is also a ground that promises ultimate fulfillment.”
(p. 30)
“The horizon of the future liberates significant events and traditions from the heaviness of merely having been and opens up a space in which they can come to life once again.” (p. 34)
“That distinguishes human existence from that of mere objects is that the former is capable of imagining ever new possibilities for itself which set up a tension between present actuality and alternative possibility.” (p. 54)
“Religion may be understood, in a normative way, as both the quest for and the affirmation of an ultimate ground of freedom—freedom not from but in spite of anxiety.” (p. 66)
“Nuance without harmony is chaos, and harmony without nuance is monotony. Beauty involves the transformation of potentially clashing elements into pleasing contrasts harmonized by the overarching aesthetic pattern of the beautiful object or experience.” (p. 72)
“The universal story of beauty seeks to take us into itself and invites us to make our lives a contribution to it. …to make our own lives part of a process of an ongoing deepening of the beauty of the universe.” (p. 88)
“… even if we may at times have explicitly despaired of ever finding the truth, we have not been able to eradicate either our desire for it or our implicit appeal to criteria of truth every time we use the verb ‘to be’” (p. 96)
“…perfect love casts out fear” (p. 109)
“It is our fundamental openness to mystery that sets us apart from the animal and grounds the self-transcendent nature of our lives.” (p. 124)
“For most of us the most intense disclosure of mystery probably occurs in our encounter with other persons.” (p. 129)
And I have some pictures in the files that are related to some of Haught’s quotes that I wrote above.
Try to explain those quotes by following the key points on the screenshots (pictures)
