The Realist and The Idealist

I'm going to explore here the idea that God is fully both.

As a probably-not-too-quick aside, It seems to me that the Lord (the scamp, as my friend often refers to Him. Should that have a capital S do we think?) is fully both, when our natural tendancy would be to look for 'balance' or to see 'tension'. The most famous example is surely the incarnation. Jesus Christ was made fully man while remaining fully God. He did not maintain a 'balance' between God-ness and man-ness, and I'm not sure I'd be happy saying He lived in the 'tension' between the two. He was simply fully human, and fully God at the same time.

Getting back to the title, our tendancy is to label people either a realist (at best one who deals with things as they are, at worst one who lacks ambition), or an idealist (at best one who dreams big dreams, at worst one who can't deal with reality). Often we will acknowledge that an effective team, for example, needs both. I would agree but I would go further: I think each person needs both, and I think God is fully both.

More on this to follow.