“Ecstatic naturalism locates god within the infinite and oftimes bewildering worlds of nature natured. Insofar as the divine life is approachable phenomenologically, it is as manifest inside of and around the edges of the world(s) of orders. The primal distinction between nature naturing and nature natured is more capacious than the subaltern distinctions between being and non-being, or god and world.”
from Deep Pantheism by Robert Corrington (I should finish reading this)
The primal distinction within an ecstatic naturalist metaphysics is that between nature naturing (natura naturans) and nature natured (natura naturata). In what follows I will define nature naturing as “Nature perennially creating itself out of itself alone,” while nature natured will be defined as, “The innumerable orders of the World.”
[cont.] Note that this ontological distinction prevails within and as the one nature that there is and does not comprise two separate realities with one being more “real” or foundational than the other. Nature naturing and nature natured belong together in the fullness that is nature in its encompassing. We approach the Encompassing whenever we consciously and deliberately attain a more expanded view of nature and its innumerable orders.
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