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One Love
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| Posted 1/6/2012 6:56 PM (GMT -6) |   | | Just start as Page 72: Results of Ego Relativization.
Just read that section.
She nailed it.
Beautiful. Simply BEAUTIFUL.
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One Love
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| Posted 1/6/2012 7:02 PM (GMT -6) | | Last paragraph of the section...
In summary, a person whose ego has been relativized by the spiritual presence of Christ into a dialectical relationality can respond non-defensively to her world and thus connect in new ways to herself and her outer world. She does not understand her world as something to grasp and use, but as an array of potentiality for expressing love through paradoxiacal 'detached involvement.' Loder's theory of Christian transformation through ego-relativization and a particular kind of ego strengthening or enhancement re-conceptualizes human development to account for the void, the Holy and human-Divine relationality.
Basically, Divine Presence liberates the ego defensive mechanisms that we naturally have to their proper uses. Boyd-MacMillan quotes Loder, underline mine...
secondary repression, instead of rigidifying and shrinking the ego boundaries, becomes, through transformation by the divine presence, "patience and self control";
projection, instead of putting oneself into another to hide from one's self becomes empathy, putting oneself into the other for the sake of feeling in oneself what the other feels;
denial, instead of being a partially conscious, partially unconscious effort to avoid the reality of a situation, becomes forgiveness--a forgiveness that forgives and forgets that it has forgiven;
all regression is in the service of transcendence, fantasy formation becomes the vision of God,
introjection becomes vicarious suffering
isolation becomes concentration, and
reaction formation becomes the capacity to return good for evil.
YES!!!! 
God definitely used James Loder to change my life. Thanks, Lord. (Thanks, Tom!) 
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| Posted 1/6/2012 7:18 PM (GMT -6) | | | | |
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| Posted 1/6/2012 7:37 PM (GMT -6) | | Now compare what Loder talks about....with this.
Lord help us.
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Researchers have begun asking the kind of nuanced questions that reveal just how big the "So What" set might be:
- 44 percent told the 2011 Baylor University Religion Survey they spend no time seeking "eternal wisdom," and 19 percent said "it's useless to search for meaning."
- 46 percent told a 2011 survey by Nashville, Tenn.-based LifeWay Research that they never wonder whether they will go to heaven.
- 28 percent told LifeWay "it's not a major priority in my life to find my deeper purpose." And 18 percent scoffed at the idea that God has a purpose or plan for everyone.
- 6.3 percent of Americans turned up on Pew Forum's 2007 Religious Landscape Survey as totally secular -- unconnected to God or a higher power or any religious identity and willing to say religion is not important in their lives.
Hemant Mehta, who blogs as the Friendly Atheist, calls them the "apatheists," while the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the new Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., calls them honest.
"We live in a society today where it is acceptable now to say that they have no spiritual curiosity. At almost any other time in history, that would have been unacceptable," Budde said.
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