Here's the definition of reality from an unimpeachable source — the Oxford English Dictionary. Which I'm thrilled to say is now a free, on-line resource!!!
With regard to your second question — how does "reality" relate to "this rather interesting post?" — the point is the subject matter of the post is referencing a very real phenomenon — something that is actually taking place "in reality," and quite independently of what you or I might think about it. Even if we were to think that what these people are stressing about is "totally false," that does not detract one whit from the fact that this is a very real phenomenon.
In other words, "reality" exists independently of whatever "idealistic or notional ideas" we might have of it. It is not something "produced in our minds."
Dear Mark, you wrote: "I realize that there is a separation of the temporal and the spiritual. Those that claim to bridge the gap are either of God or of the tent revival preachers."
Man, made in the image and likeness of God, already bridges the gap between the temporal and the spiritual. In man, they are not separate.
Or at least, so it seems to me. FWIW.
Thank you so very much, dear Mark, for sharing your thoughts with me (us)!
I'm going to have to remember that.
Man, made in the image and likeness of God, already bridges the gap between the temporal and the spiritual. In man, they are not separate.
I disagree. They are separated by that bridge over the gap. They have both in their aspect, and one aspect can affect the other, but each aspect is separate.
Thank you so much for your outstanding essay-post, dearest sister in Christ!