1. A Cajun Theological Architectonic
Peircean Rubric: Secondness and Firstness are mediated by Thirdness to effect Fourthness
(axiological)
Axiology: This peircean rubric represents a tetradic holon of truth (descriptions) and comm-unity
(interpretations) mediated by goodness (norms) to realize beauty (indicated by symmetry,
simplicity, facility, parsimony, unity in diversity).
These holonic elements recur fugue-like both across and within our architectonic
supercategories of giver (speculative theology), thanksgiving (practical
theology), gifted (anthropology), gifts (axiology), giving & receiving (epistemology), givens
(phenomenology or ontology)
To wit:
Epistemology: the descriptive and interpretive are mediated by the normative to effect the
evaluative
Phenomenology or Ontology: the actual and possible are mediated by the probable to effect the
emergent-dynamical
Classical Metaphysics: the actual and possible are mediated by the necessary to effect the predetermined
Telic Ontology: the actual and possible are mediated by the probable to effect the desirable
Anthropology: with epistemology modeling ontology, the body and soul (heart/psyche) are
mediated by the spirit (mind) to realize the self
Theological Anthropology (drawing on Lonergan & Gelpi): attention, perception & awareness
and intelligence are mediated by the reasonable to effect the responsible (authentic or true
self) being in love as intellectual (ignatian understanding), emotional (ignatian memory)
conversions are mediated by moral (ignatian will) conversion to effect politico-cultural (soteriosophio) and religious (Gerald May's willingness) conversions (think Mary's fiat, Islam's surrender,
Jesus' kenosis, Buddhism's sunyata, Prayer of St Francis, Merton's Prayer - Lord, I do not know,
Therese's Little Way, Trustful Surrender & Abandonment to Divine Providence).
Human Spiritual Spheres of Concern (drawing on Helminiak - secular & sacred)): Science
(positivist) and Religion (theistic) are mediated by Philosophy (philosophic) to effect Culture
(theotic)
Secular, implicitly & Sacred, explicitly: the historical-eschatological (orientations) socialecclesiological (empowerments) are mediated by the economic-pneumatological (sanctifications)

2. to effect the politico-cultural (salvation-liberation) and soterio-sophiological (growth-healing)
Religious: being-seeing (mysticism) and belonging (faith community) are mediated by behavingbelieving (responsivity to spirit) to effect desirings (oneness)
The Great Traditions: creed and community are mediated by codifications to effect cult-ivations
Biblical Hermeneutics: the literal and allegorical are mediated by the tropological to effect the
anagogical
Eucharistic: reality’s gifted-givens and thanksgiving to the giver are mediated by receiving &
giving to effect the gifts
Eucharistic Anthropology: the anthropo-phenomenological (gifted-givens) and theological
(thanksgiving re: practical theology and giver re: speculative theology) are mediated by the
epistemo-methodological (receiving) to effect the axiological (gifts)
Yong: the word and community are mediated by the spirit to effect lovePentecostal: glossolalia
and gathering are mediated by baptism in the spirit to effect the gifts of the spirit
Polydoxic Speculative Theology (drawing on Thatamanil & Neville): relationship between son
(contingency) and father (determinate creator) is mediated by spirit (relation) to effect love
(indeterminate ground) ... as the merely existential (contingent) and purely essential (abstracted)
are mediated by the robustly relational (inspirited) to effect our fullest realization (ad majorem Dei
gloriam, AMDG) and enjoyment (beatific) of our primal ground, origin, being, cause, meaning,
purpose and destiny (cf. Kung) in God.
Practical Theology of 5-fold Christology-Pneumatology: orientations and empowerments are
mediated by sanctifications to effect salvation-liberation and growth-healing
This kenotic cosmic metanarrative of emergent values via a progression of replication variations,
risk amplifications and value augmentations is summarized here
at http://renewaldynamics.com/2013/07/29/the-theology-of-amos-yong/
and unpacked in great detail at http://www.scribd.com/johnboy_philothea
where pan-SEMIO-entheism is introduced and explicated as our journey of meaning-creation,

3. meaning-discovery and meaning-cocreation, our hypothesis being that all meaning is grounded
in an inscrutable, unfathomable, incomprehensible, inexhaustible, mysterious reality
called LOVE.
This is all consonant with Philip St. Romain's (cf. Sylvest's parenthetically) Theological
Anthropology wherein, together, the ego's journey to individuation (realizing the intrasubjective
integrity of the unified self) with the self's journey to enlightenment (realizing the intraobjective
identity of unitary being) and our communal journey to belonging (realizing the intersubjective
intimacy of our unitive strivings) mediated by our spiritual journey to authenticity (including
Maslow's self-actualization thru Frankl's self-transcendence and sustained authenticity via
Lonergan's being in love) to continue our journey to contemplative integration ... ... ... ...
(finally adding our realization of the wholly transcendent via our experience of mysterium
tremendem et fascinans or the interobjective indeterminacy of reality's ultimate unicity)
Visit St. Romain's Shalomplace at http://shalomplace.com/ for practical guidance in realizing
these spiritual values.