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Emergence Happens: when people are robustly self-critical, privilege the marginalized, can see beauty in ugly realities & are inclusive.

Emergence Happens: when prophets are robustly self-critical, othodoxically, vis a vis their articulation of truth.

Emergence Happens: when priests celebrate the beauty in ugly realities, orthopathically, vis a vis crux probat omnia.

Emergence Happens: when kings privilege the marginalized, orthopraxically, vis a vis the preservation of goodness.

Emergence Happens: when communities are inclusive in enjoying fellowship vis a vis orthocommunio.

Emergent conversation is not elusive; beyond mere dialogue, it’s meta-discourse, thus inherently vague/indeterminate, not specific.

The essence of Emergent Meta-Discourse is the healthy negotiation & transcendence of dysfunctionally established boundaries & defenses.

A preoccupation w/boundary establishment & defense reveals a sick identity structure for religious institutions focused on who’s in/out.

There can be healthy establishment & defense of boundaries (radical orthodoxy) in religious institutions that nurture self-criticality.

Boundary establishment, defense, negotiation & transcendence integrally presuppose each other w/in healthy institutions.

Dogma decays into dogmatism, ritual to ritualism, code to legalism and community to institutionalism w/ dysfunctional boundaries.

When boundary dynamism is dysfunctional, conditions do not favor emergent realities.

Emergence introduces unpredictable novelty; it’s epistemically & ontologically open.

The emergentist paradigm is only a heuristic device, placeholder for ideas, even in biosemiotics.

Borrowing fr Peirce’s semiotic: normative mediates between descriptive & interpretive to effect evaluative.

Orthopathos mediates between orthodoxy & orthopraxy to effect orthocommunio.

Boundary negotiation mediates between establishment & defense to effect transcendence.

When boundaries are negotiated, are they authentic? suitably normed? do they foster robust transformation?

Boundaries negotiated w/o various ortho-norms are ontologically open, indeed; false transcendence & quasi-liturgical emerge.

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