I find your insights to the Eucharist - East v West - to be particularly illuminating, suggeting that some cultures (or mindsets) may be comfortable with broad concepts whereas others need specificity.
To me, it suggests we could benefit by exploring the languages or culture behind a word/concept before assuming a difference and leaping to a pro/con posture.
hosepipe would probably appreciate that because he and I are always at odds over the word "dimension" since I am somewhat committed to the meaning wrt geometric physics. LOL!
I am not sure why I am not comfortable with the word dimension.. and sometimes use the word paradigm or realm.. but I am not comfortable with it..
Could be because the 1st, 2nd dimension do not exist.. only the 3rd dimension exists.. and I suspect the 4th does not exist either since time exists in the 3rd dimension..
Could also be a lack in me, in my vista of observations.. That has happened before on some items of thought.. Actually I am not real comfortable trying to concieve of higher dimensions.. I feel it could be impossible to do that except as a cartoon of the reality of it in this paradigm..
I am comfortable that the world I live in is a world of flesh and material energy.. and God the Angels and my spirit eventually will live in the Spiritual World/dimension and both paradigm's operate concurrently.. More than that I percieve that, that, is what the bible says too.. besides the warm fuzzy feeling it gives me.. ;)