Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Manila
Fourteenth Congress
First Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. _______
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Introduced by Honorable Eduardo Nonato N. Joson
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RESOLUTION
DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE HOUSE COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, ON THE STATE OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE IN THE COUNTRY AND ITS BENEFITS FOR THE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES AND/OR DENOMINATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Whereas, in Article III, Section 5 of the Constitution of the Philippines, the State guarantees that “no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. It is further guaranteed that “the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed”;
Whereas, the State recognizes that we are a nation rich in divergent communities and cultures;
Whereas, conflict arises when there is misunderstanding or discrimination due to such differences in values inherent in a particular community’s culture, religion and custom. Further, an attitude of intolerance or non-acceptance towards people of different persuasions impede our efforts towards reconciliation and unity;
Whereas, there is a need for a genuine dialogue to foster integration and assimilation of such diverse interests and cultures for the promotion of harmony in the pursuit of peace, progress, justice and honor for all Filipinos;
Now, therefore, be it resolved, as it is hereby resolved, that the appropriate House Committee conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, on the state of interfaith dialogue in the country and the possibility of establishing a council for the promotion of Interfaith Dialogue in the Philippines.
EDUARDO NONATO N. JOSON
Representative
1st-District Nueva Ecija
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If you are interested in some new ideas on interfaith dialogue and the Trinity, please check out my website at www.religiouspluralism.ca, and give me your thoughts on improving content and presentation.
My thesis is that an abstract version of the Trinity could be Christianity’s answer to the world need for a framework of pluralistic theology.
In a constructive worldview: east, west, and far-east religions present a threefold understanding of One God manifest primarily in Muslim and Hebrew intuition of the Deity Absolute, Christian and Krishnan Hindu conception of the Universe Absolute Supreme Being; and Shaivite Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist apprehension of the Destroyer (meaning also Consummator), Unconditioned Absolute, or Spirit of All That Is and is not. Together with their variations and combinations in other major religions, these religious ideas reflect and express our collective understanding of God, in an expanded concept of the Holy Trinity.
The Trinity Absolute is portrayed in the logic of world religions, as follows:
1. Muslims and Jews may be said to worship only the first person of the Trinity, i.e. the existential Deity Absolute Creator, known as Allah or Yhwh, Abba or Father (as Jesus called him), Brahma, and other names; represented by Gabriel (Executive Archangel), Muhammad and Moses (mighty messenger prophets), and others.
2. Christians and Krishnan Hindus may be said to worship the first person through a second person, i.e. the experiential Universe or "Universal” Absolute Supreme Being (Allsoul or Supersoul), called Son/Christ or Vishnu/Krishna; represented by Michael (Supreme Archangel), Jesus (teacher and savior of souls), and others. The Allsoul is that gestalt of personal human consciousness, which we expect will be the "body of Christ" (Mahdi, Messiah, Kalki or Maitreya) in the second coming – personified in history by Muhammad, Jesus Christ, Buddha (9th incarnation of Vishnu), and others.
3. Shaivite Hindus, Buddhists, and Confucian-Taoists seem to venerate the synthesis of the first and second persons in a third person or appearance, ie. the Destiny Consummator of ultimate reality – unqualified Nirvana consciousness – associative Tao of All That Is – the absonite* Unconditioned Absolute Spirit “Synthesis of Source and Synthesis,”** who/which is logically expected to be Allah/Abba/Brahma glorified in and by union with the Supreme Being – represented in religions by Gabriel, Michael, and other Archangels, Mahadevas, Spiritpersons, etc., who may be included within the mysterious Holy Ghost.
Other strains of religion seem to be psychological variations on the third person, or possibly combinations and permutations of the members of the Trinity – all just different personality perspectives on the Same God. Taken together, the world’s major religions give us at least two insights into the first person of this thrice-personal One God, two perceptions of the second person, and at least three glimpses of the third.
* The ever-mysterious Holy Ghost or Unconditioned Spirit is neither absolutely infinite, nor absolutely finite, but absonite; meaning neither existential nor experiential, but their ultimate consummation; neither fully ideal nor totally real, but a middle path and grand synthesis of the superconscious and the conscious, in consciousness of the unconscious.
** This conception is so strong because somewhat as the Absonite Spirit is a synthesis of the spirit of the Absolute and the spirit of the Supreme, so it would seem that the evolving Supreme Being may himself also be a synthesis or “gestalt” of humanity with itself, in an Almighty Universe Allperson or Supersoul. Thus ultimately, the Absonite is their Unconditioned Absolute Coordinate Identity – the Spirit Synthesis of Source and Synthesis – the metaphysical Destiny Consummator of All That Is.
For more details, please see: www.religiouspluralism.ca
Samuel Stuart Maynes
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