Universal History and the Communal Ontology - Ep.9 (w/Nate &

In the ninth episode of The Baptizing Philosophy Podcast, Trey, Nate and ALLHEART assemble to discuss the notion of “universal history” and the fundamental patterns of reality that are revealed in Christianity.
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Preface to Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity
I found Christ through this book. When I wrote the first word of Aphesis in the summer of 2019, I was a staunch (Nietzschean) atheist, and I wrote the final chapter as a catechumen in the Orthodox Church. When I say that I found Christ through this book, I mean it in the most literal sense. My “moment of conversion” occurred while I was shooting hoops in my driveway, in deep and troubled thought over my inability to complete the final chapter of this book, one which would overcome, or at least provide a reconciliation with, the “impossibilities of subjectivity.” And suddenly, as if a veil had been lifted from my eyes, I perceived the profound truth that the Christian story of salvation provides a “narrow path” out of every paradox and contradiction I found myself lost in. I dropped the ball, and the coincidences I perceived “made me suddenly stand still.”
I then messaged my cousin, my best friend and brother in Christ, to tell him the good news. Over the next two years we discovered Orthodox Christianity. Orthodox Christian theology-which has its foundation in the ontology of communion-posits that the being of beings is found in the other, in communion with the other. Communion is not mere “relating” to the other as if there were an underlying self-relation that only secondarily “relates” to another self-relating being. The radicality of the communal ontology consists of its absolute opposition to the notion of self-relation, which it banishes into the outer darkness. Pure self-relation is not merely something to be avoided-it is strictly impossible. The source of all being, being as such, is the communion between the Persons of the Holy Trinity: “Nothing in existence is conceivable in itself, as an individual, such as the substance of Aristotle, since even God exists thanks to an event of communion.”
The ontology of communion posits that one’s being is not found in oneself but in and through the other. One reconciles with and finds oneself in Christ. Simply put, the life of the individual is not found “in itself,” but in God:
"Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day [...] This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." (John 6:53-57)
The true radicality of Christ’s “hard teaching” is often lost in the English translation. The Greek term translated as “eat” is closer to “munch” or “consume.” The communal ontology sees being as the consumption of the other (which is another reason why the communal ontology is not merely “relational”). But this “consumption” is not selfish devouring and the destruction of otherness, but a full reception of the other’s freely given love, made possible through the simultaneous giving of oneself. If one remains enclosed within oneself, one cannot commune; it is only in abandoning one’s self-imprisonment through self-sacrifice that one becomes open to communal life.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
1:02 Universal History: Communal Ontology as Narrative
9:58 The Tower of Babel and Sin
19:56 How God Acts in History and Redeems the World
23:05 Global Noahic Consciousness
26:33 The Greeks and the Hebrews
38:36 Alexander the Great
45:24 America and the Fourth Son of Noah
57:40 Conclusion

[@Normvids]

NICE CONVERSATION

[@the_economancer]

Absolute fav pod cast!!!

[@the_economancer]

@@telosbound Thanks for bringing such great content!

[@Faustus_de_Reiz]

Absolute fire!!!

[@HammertownWins]

Shouldn't (to the extent is it possible) we watch everyone, in real time, in the same we look at historical figures in universal history. Or are we completely unable to do that?
The patterns must be the same in the universal and the personal, so we should be able to see it in real time too. But can be kinda hard, and probably specifically impossible unless in accuracy informed by The Holy Spirit? I guess that means we should focus as when we see people, knowledge etc. to be in accordance with God's Will!
Great video! This is the wildest place to be.🔥

[@HammertownWins]

@@telosbound That's great advice lmao

[@dialmformowgli]

♡

[@pepper1614]

Allheart looks like dream ngl

[@ALLHEART_]

LOL. I can kinda see what you mean. I think I'm a little squarer/rounder tho in my facial features.

[@daMillenialTrucker]

It's the Christian version of him 😂

[@Jimmylad.]

Not sure why you say Alexander was seen as virtuous by Christians. Dante although not canonical places him in hell.