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This-essay is a7704111.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %COMMUNAL SALVATION 770411 A collection of individualists trying to earn their passage to heaven cannot create a community. Their ultimately individualistic concerns will undermine their communal perceptions and concerns. Given a choice between earning individualistic merit points and serving inconspicuously on a communal team --- self, rather than community, is likely to rule. Thus a theological/religious orientation which presupposes individualistic salvation as a focal concern, is an orientation which will ultimately frustrate communal welfare. If the individual's ultimate responsibility is to save his/her own soul, community welfare will be undermined. Cleverness in drawing up the criteria for individualistic salvation will not help individualisticly oriented pilgrims transcend their fragmentive orientation. Not even transcendence of narrow legalism will promote fully the transcendence of fragmentive individualism. An essential aspect of genuine communities is an integrative concern for the welfare of the community woven into the communal life in ways which transcend the imaginative capabilities of isolated individualists. Thorough going individualists cannot understand thoroughgoing communalists, and vice versa. Their cultural frameworks create perceptual contexts so foreign to each other as to make the frameworks imperceptible to both self and other. Neither is able to perceive clearly either their own or the other's perceptual frameworks and so each perceives the other's behavior as incomprehensible and disturbing to self. Each is threatened by the incongruity of the unperceived cultural contexts, and the incomprehensible behavior the other's context engenders. Misunderstanding will probably continue so long as the cultural contexts remain beyond the level of conscience comparison. Communal salvation will not come to collections of individualists until they surrender their ultimate concern for individualistic salvation. Only when their love transcends concern for their personal salvation will individuals become able to join together and find their meaning and fulfillment in being an integrative community. No collection of techniques will transcend the dilemmas generated by individualists' analytic orientations which undermine the I-Thou modality of intimate relationships. Individual salvation will not be enjoyed by collectivists until they surrender their exclusive concern for the community and learn the importance of respecting unique individuals. Collectivists often undermine the welfare of the community by legalistic approaches to community organization and planning. No collection of communal techniques for manipulating individuals will transcend the dilemmas generated by collectivists' communal exclusivity---which undermines individuals' creativity and love. Communal salvation and individualistic salvation are interdependent upon each other and are not enjoyed by those people who exclusively value one but not the other. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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