{"product_id":"2940149599448","title":"The Transcendent Dynamic","description":"Summa Metaphysica proposes a comprehensive and\u003cbr\u003eintegrated metaphysical structure – a new paradigm.\u003cbr\u003eSumma I: God and Evil: Religious Man (published 1988)\u003cbr\u003eand Summa II: God and Good: Spiritual Man (first launched\u003cbr\u003e2005 online) comprise Birnbaum's Summa Metaphysica\u003cbr\u003eseries. The author has proposed that one fundamental\u003cbr\u003econcept – and one fundamental concept alone – Quest\u003cbr\u003efor Potential8 (recursive to the infinite power) – ignited –\u003cbr\u003eand drives – the cosmos – and the integral infinite divine.\u003cbr\u003eBuilding upon his 1988 treatise, in Summa II: God\u003cbr\u003eand Good: Spiritual Man (17 years later) the author\u003cbr\u003elays out his overarching metaphysical structure in very\u003cbr\u003esignificantly greater scope, depth, breadth and texture.\u003cbr\u003eSumma III: The Transcendent Dynamic: Secular Man offers\u003cbr\u003ea metaphysics for 'Everyman' – de-linked from any spirituality\u003cbr\u003eor religious aspects. It might best be classified as 'scientific\u003cbr\u003emetaphysics'. It Is anchored In a creative finesse of science and logic.\u003cbr\u003eBirnbaum's paradigm is non–linear, as opposed to the\u003cbr\u003elinearity of the great bulk of Western philosophy. It is non–\u003cbr\u003ecircular, as opposed to the circularity of much of Eastern\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy. Rather, Birnbaum's paradigm is what the author\u003cbr\u003erefers to as a \"spiral\/reflexive\" dynamic (elucidated in the\u003cbr\u003etext). The author proposes that this Quest for Potential8\u003cbr\u003eparadigm more elegantly explains the dynamics of the cosmos\u003cbr\u003e– and of life, in particular – than alternate propositions.\u003cbr\u003eAccording to Birnbaum, only the full plethora of potentials\u003cbr\u003e– and the quest thereof – could have ignited the cosmos.\u003cbr\u003eThe combined potentials for love, life, intellectuality,\u003cbr\u003espirituality and, indeed, for an infinitely Perfect Divine,\u003cbr\u003eignited, birthed, nurtured, and projected the cosmos\u003cbr\u003eonward on its quest towards infinity. 'Extraordinariation,'\u003cbr\u003eaccording to the author, is the overarching goal.\u003cbr\u003eThomas Aquinas wrote Summa Theologica c. 1273 within a\u003cbr\u003eChristian context. The Summa Metaphysica series, proposing\u003cbr\u003ean original, dynamic, overarching, and integrated metaphysics,\u003cbr\u003eis crafted within a Jewish context seven hundred years later.","brand":"New Paradigm Matrix","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109084938480,"sku":"2940149599448","price":3.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149599448_p0.jpg?v=1763720039","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149599448","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}