Anyone can listen to a musical composition with a few instruments out of tune, in different keys, on different parts of the song, or playing different songs altogether, and immediately experience why this fragmentation is a major problem, in fact THE major problem. Steve also writes about that:
https://dlcommunion.org/a-music-metapho ... issonance/
Steve wrote:Perhaps you have heard someone practicing the piano or some other instrument. It may be going well but all of a sudden, a note is struck that doesn’t seem right. Depending on how out of place it is, it may even make us cringe. In music this could be called a dissonance.
Definitions:
Consonance:
“a combination of notes which are in harmony with each other.”
Dissonance:
“a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.”
In a consonant piece of music things fit together well. There may be many variations in timbre, intensity, tempo and the like, but everything fits together so well it may even seem inevitable. I am particularly fond of the Rachmaninoff piano concerto 3. It has all the elements of great music where we experience the full range of emotions. It’s a long piece with many variations but in the end it all works. In great music, there are periodic cycles of rising and falling tension, variations on a theme, and often many voices at work but taken together as a whole it can be a satisfying experience. The same is true for other forms of art.
Dissonance is quite different. There is something that seems out of place and disjointed from the rest. At some point there is a level of discomfort that arises and a tension created that begs for some resolution. Now, this dissonance need not be by accident. One example of this can be seen in jazz. A dissonance is introduced to create tension but eventually there is a resolution such that, in total, it makes sense. We feel relieved that it wasn’t just left hanging there.
Also, no one has made a case for any final static Unity or "perfection" of the sort you keep referencing. You are simply imposing that strawman on Cleric. I am sure Steve holds to the possibility and high probability that humanity approaches higher knowledge of the Divine realm in an ever-expanding process. Not a multiverse of separate Divine realms for each tradition and for each person, but One unified Divine realm. If not, then he would have some serious problems reconciling with Christian scripture.