Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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The Modern, Post-Enlightenment Mind
Apr 17th
The Modern, Post-Enlightenment mind assumes that knowledge is certain, objective, and good. It presupposes that the rational, dispassionate self can obtain such knowledge. It presupposes that the knowing self peers at the mechanistic world as a neutral observer armed with the scientific method.
The modern knower engages in the knowing process and believing that knowledge [...]
Missions?
Feb 27th
Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there.
Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis, Highlight Loc. 1242-44
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The Primacy of a Lived Faith
Feb 24th
“Members of the next generation are often unimpressed by our verbal presentations of the gospel. What they want to see is a people who live out the gospel in wholesome, authentic, and healing relationships.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 3150-52 [↩]Scridb filter
The Church and New Cultural Forms
Feb 22nd
“Part of the Christian calling is to appraise any new eth os that shapes the culture in which God calls believers to live as his people. One goal of this task is to equip the church to articulate and embody the gospel in the context of that culture.” [1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) [...]
Kant’s Basis of Category and Nietzsche’s Response
Feb 22nd
“Nietzsche is not merely repeating what Kant had said a century earlier. Kant argued that the self constructs knowledge by means of transcendental categories derived from the mind, which he assumed to be structurally the same in all persons.persons. He believed that this sameness of structure — this shared human nature — provides the foundation [...]
The Violence of Thought
Feb 21st
“[We often] overlook the fact that no two things or occurrences are exactly the same. Consequently, rather than mediating genuine knowledge, our conceptualizing robs reality of its multiplicity and destroys the original richness and vitality of human experience.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657-59 [↩]Scridb filter
Nietzsche’s View of the World
Feb 19th
“Nietzsche’s view, the world is made up of fragments that are totally different from one another.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657 [↩]Scridb filter
Subject-Object Dualism
Feb 18th
“[The] feature of Cartesianism that has received the most criticism is its inherent subject-object dualism. If the self is a thinking subject, then the self necessarily perceives every other kind of thing as an object. The resultant distinction between subject and object endows the subject with greater importance than the object. It sets the knowing [...]
The Connection between Celebrity and Terrorism
Feb 18th
“His exploits faded behind the conjoined twins of popular news—terrorism and celebrity, which seemed to me, trained in the study of human cultures, only exaggerated aspects of the same mortal vanities: the need to make a mark; the belief that you alone matter.” [1]
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Helping Them Take the Old Man Down, Preston, Asimov’s Science Fiction (Penny [...]
How Bizarre!
Feb 18th
“"Odd that a mercenary like Conan would accept less in payment than he could get," the new satrap commented. "I offered him a chest full of gold-enough to support him for life. But he would take only one small sack, together with the horse he found on the battlefield and his pick of arms and [...]
Beings in the World
Feb 17th
“Heidegger contends that the human being is not primarily a thinking self, a subject that engages in cognitive acts; rather, we are above all else beings-in-the-world, enmeshed in social networks.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1602-3 [↩]Scridb filter
The Atheist’s Comfort
Feb 17th
“And so love, personal intimacy, a household: these seemed saving graces—for Claire and me, if for no one else. When the sun swelled and drowned the inner planets, or when our fragile world with all its weapons went under in its own fires, there would at least have been our simple joys for a little [...]
Skull-Splitting Laughter
Feb 17th
“The Cimmerian glared about, embarrassed at the roar of mocking laughter that greeted this remark. He saw no particular humor in it and was too new to civilization to understand its discourtesies. Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”[1]
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Hands To Break
Feb 17th
“The life of man is not the life of Yag, nor is human death the death of Yag. Let me be free of this cage of broken, blind flesh, and I will once more be Yogah of Yag, morning-crowned and shining, with wings to fly, and feet to dance, and eyes to see, and hands [...]
Descartes and the creation of the Body
Feb 16th
“But by focusing on the thinking self, Descartes relegates the body to a sphere outside of and apart from the thinking subject.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1586-87 | Added on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 07:11 PM [↩]Scridb filter
Encasing the Unencasable.
Feb 16th
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can’t be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.[1]
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Velvet Elvis (Rob Bell) – Highlight Loc. 390-92 [↩]Scridb [...]
Blindly
Feb 16th
“Njeri knew her motives weren’t pure. She wanted to save the man, yes, but not for his sake. She wanted to save him to make up for all the times she’d cut people open blindly.”[1]
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Stone Wall Truth, Yoachim, Asimov’s Science Fiction (Penny Publications) – Highlight Loc. 1131-33 [↩]Scridb filter
Nothing is Really Free
Feb 16th
We tend to think of things that we do not immediately pay for as free, but the cost is always either delayed, hidden, suppressed (to entice you to spend more), or comes in the form of other services to the company.
For example, we often think that “as long as you pay off your [...]
Moses and the Lamb
Mar 1st
Posted by Henry Imler in Texts
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“The Song of Moses has become in Revelation the Song of the Lamb, the "new song." Both songs praise God’s redemptive activity in the deliverance and liberation of the people of God.” [1]
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Revelation: Vision of a Just World (Proclamation Commentaries) (Elisabeth, Schussler Fiorenza) – Highlight Loc. 1433-34 [↩]Scridb filter