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It’s Time to Cut Bulgakov, Hegel & Others Some

Serious Slack
A necessitarian nominalism, whether merely apparent or clearly latent,
notoriously thick or variously thin, has led many to wholesale reject Royce,
Bulgakov, Hegel, Hartshorne, Whitehead & others.

Oversimplifying, but … sufficient remedies are available from Classical Theism

[CT] & Peirce [CSP].

From CT, we know that some conception of simplicity, variously nuanced,

remains indispensable. From CSP, his semiotic account of intersubjective
becoming can innoculate our systems from nominalism & determinism.

For example, CT would block any inferences to any ad intra, theogonic

becoming. CSP would insist on a distinction between individual & corporate
agency (how they act interpretively) thus blocking any supraindividualist
conceptions of communities, e.g. the Totus Tuus is rather decidedly
interpersonal.

Within such heuristic constraints, Joseph Bracken’s neo-Whiteheadian

metaphysic of intersubjectivity can be placed in a constructive dialogue with
Hegel, Royce, Bulgakov & others.

Bracken, with recourse to Royce, sets forth an account that’s more Hegelian
than Whiteheadian, as he dialogues with Moltmann, Mühlen and Jüngel.

See Process Philosophy and Trinitarian Theology by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.

Bracken argues that what Whitehead meant by society and what Hegel meant
by Spirit point toward an overall understanding of reality as inherently
processive and communitarian.

See Spirit and Society: A Study of Two Concepts by Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.

Brandon Gallaher explores the resonance of a process panentheism, such as

Bracken’s, with the Sophiology of the Russian theologian, philosopher and
economist, Sergii Bulgakov.

See The Problem of Pantheism in the Sophiology of Sergii Bulgakov: A

Panentheistic Solution in the Process Trinitarianism of Joseph A. Bracken?

In my own stance, which resonates with both the Sophiology of a Brackenized

Bulgakov as well as Jordan Daniel Woods’ Maximian Christology &
Cosmology, the Totus Christus would refer to the One concrete social
Absolute in terms of the dynamical & epectatic interpersonal unitive doing
(not supra-individual unitary being) of mutually constituted I – Thous
(grounded in the differences of a loving & eternal generation of opposites).

See A Neo-Chalcedonian, Cosmotheandric Universalism

 John Sobert Sylvest May 11, 2023 Uncategorized

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