To: Greg or e who wrote (17108 ) 4/19/2004 4:47:48 AM From: 2MAR$ Respond to Good catch ...the Templeton Foundation award.... South Africa has come such a long long way since Ghandi practiced law there and Nelson Mandela was imprisoned and apartheid, fear and slavery ruled for so long . And now S. Africa has made such an amzing turn towards a multicultural democracy and an inclusive society . What has happened there given the past oppression, is relative harmony of a post-apartheid society that could be hailed as quite remarkable. Looking a little farther north to the never ending violence of the "Holy Lands" of Allah and Jehova, the slaughter in Rwanda and Somali ,"He has demonstrated how genuine religious and theological perspectives can help us understand the constitution and character of our universe in terms of 'kenosis,' self-sacrificing love," Stoeger wrote, adding that Ellis had shown, "that our universe seems to be particularly suited for fostering that attitude and practice, and to require it for its harmonious functioning at every level." Referring to On the Moral Nature of the Universe, Ellis added, "Indeed it is only if ethics is of this nature that it has a truly moral character, that is, it represents a guiding light that we ought to obey." He believes, along with co-author Murphy, that kenotic behavior is "deeply imbedded in the universe, both in ethics and in other aspects of our lives" and that it is the only way to achieve what might otherwise be "rationally impossible" in a world fraught with war and insecurity.
