wright might actually be right about platonism and how it's completely changed Western and European thought.
But. Why.....how did Judaism stay in the stream of wholeness like that? Reading the Bible is starting to change because of this new line of thought. The physical and spiritual are one. in. the. same.
The Creator and the created are two separate entities, and love makes/gives to something other than itself to reaffirm the goodness of the other.
That hebrew belief stuff, for the sake of reference and keeping:
: The first thing to keep in
mind is that in Ancient Hebrew thought there is no separation between the
physical and non-physical, they are the one and the same. An example of this is
in Psalm 24:4 where "clean hands" and "pure heart" are one
and the same thing. A common form of Hebrew poetry the "and" connects
two phrases as one and the same thing. Clean hands are a sign of a pure hearth
and visa versa.
The heavens is the physical skies and it is also the place
of God, one and the same thing. It is the western (i.e.: Greek) thinking that
separates the two realms. We often see the "spirit" as spirtual and
the "body" as physical but in Hebrew thought they are one and the
same thing. Without the spirit (actually breath in Hebrew) the body cannot
survive and with the body the spirit cannot survive.
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