Science and Christianity mutually exclusive?

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 30 15:17:10 CST 2004


If either side knew referents to the prophets'
words, they could build a scientific theology.
The scientists would build it objectively, as
one plays with a model train. But the knowers
built it subjectively, being that model train.
Poetics tries to visualize an engineer's view.

Ultra-rational science demands repeatable
experiments, else results must be doubted.
But their fellow scientists lack the clue.
The poet/prophet is so rare, that when he
falls into this domain (of the katabasis)
reporting fails in words of the hedgemony.
Few enough can survive, much less exposit.
What exposition occurs seems metaphorical,
transcendent, or nonsensical, so theology
can only bracket possible interpretations
by contradictions using ordinary meanings.
The clue to this domain is auto-eroticism:
words who are themselves: six-wing female
seraphim, and phallic-sword male cherubim.
So a two-wing male poet talks about birds,
and you run on with avian interpretations.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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