{"id":446,"date":"2007-01-04T06:12:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T06:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/creative-tensio-1-2.html"},"modified":"2007-01-04T06:12:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T06:12:45","slug":"creative-tensio-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/creative-tensio-1-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Creative Tension:  Mystery (p4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lucas gives us the ingredients to embracing the paradoxes of God and living with the mystery.&nbsp; His components in part are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a truth<\/li>\n<li>an opposing truth<\/li>\n<li>a willingness:&nbsp; We choose to press the two truths against each other as hard as we can.<\/li>\n<li>a tension:&nbsp; We look for the tension, and <em>rejoice<\/em> in the tension, between the two sides of the paradox.&nbsp; We want to leverage each side against the other.&nbsp; The practical way to focus this step is to frame the tension as a halakic argument or question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He then proceeds work this process with the many of the paradoxes of the God we love.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a sampling of the chapter titles&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The All-Knowing God Who Forgets<\/li>\n<li>The God of Judgment Who Gives Us a Break<\/li>\n<li>the Changeless God Who Changes<\/li>\n<li>The God Who Loathes and Loves the Wicked<\/li>\n<li>The Prince of Peace Who Bears a Sword<\/li>\n<li>We Must Flee Evil, and We Must Fight It<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simply put this is the stuff of jazz.&nbsp; Creative Tension<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lucas gives us the ingredients to embracing the paradoxes of God and living with the mystery.&nbsp; His components in part are&#8230; a truth an opposing truth a willingness:&nbsp; We choose to press the two truths against each other as hard as we can. a tension:&nbsp; We look for the tension, and rejoice in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Creative Tension: Mystery (p4) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/01\/creative-tensio-1-2.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creative Tension: Mystery (p4) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James Lucas gives us the ingredients to embracing the paradoxes of God and living with the mystery.&nbsp; 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