Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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The Truth is not out there (Sorry X-Files Fans)
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Truth cannot be out there — cannot exist independently of the human mind — because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. – Rorty.
Here, he takes on the notion of truth as a 1:1 correspondence with the world. Instead of talking about the correspondence of sentences to the world, the best test for the Correspondence theory of truth is to compare competing vocabularies. When you do that, things get much harder.
Read the full quote, and then join me in talking about its ramifications.
The Return to a Primitive Christianity is Impossible.
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Having rejected the aid of the community of interpreters throughout the history of Christendom, we have not succeeded in returning to the primitive gospel; we have simply managed to plunge ourselves back to the biases of our own individual situations.
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Guilty fabergé eggs
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I take it as a mark of godliness that my immediate Christian community is able to follow God’s command to be stewards of this Earth and we are beginning to be conscious of and find ways to evangelize without resorting to making asses out of ourselves and our Lord. And we do this while not merely inverting the fundamentalist/reformed paradigms. We still value just as much the seeking of Christ and faith in him for the acceptance of the forgiveness of sin. We still see the Bible as the only God-Stamped revelation. But, there is one thing we still lack…
The Vocabulary of the Trinity is the Vocabulary of Xianity
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The Rublev Trinity Icon, a depiction of Abraham’s three visitors.
Western theologians and apologists often hold the belief that while the trinitarian theology might offer edificatory value to believers, for outsiders it is an unfortunate barrier to belief.
Trinitarian theology is then pushed aside and if ever approached, it is creeped upon via some non-trinitarian apologetic, such [...]
Truth is just over that Horizon
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In my philosophy classes, I often try to help my students distinguish between that set of beliefs that we think are true and a description of the world-as-it-is. Another way of putting it, between Little-T truth and Big-T truth. Little-T truth is everything we think is true, but it is limited by our perspective of reality and contained within our language.
Big-T truth, on the other hand, is impossible for humans to achieve. We all have limited horizons and in order to be able to speak of the world-as-it-is, we need to get beyond that horizon, we need perspective.
Summer Reading: Eve’s Revenge
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Eve’s Revenge by Lilian Calles Barger
I’ve mentioned this book a few times around here. I am slowly but surely working my way through it. It is one of those rare gems. Rarely is there a book that takes modern feminist theory, a good Christian view of sexuality, complex philosophical argumentation, layman’s writing. I cannot recommend [...]
The Cave of John of Patmos
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Here is a really cool 360 walk-through of the Cave of the Apocalypse in Patmos, Greece. It is the site fabled to have been where John the Seer recieved his revelation from God.
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So also do all natures feel God
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Sections from a hymn of Ephrem the Syrian. Somebody, turn this into a hymn we sing at church!
There is One Being, who knows Himself and sees Himself. He dwells in Himself, And from Himself sets forth. Glory to His Name. This is a Being [...]
The Pre-Eminence of the Church
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The pre-eminence of the Church is its oneness. It is the basis of union. In this, it surpasses all other things and has nothing like or equal to itself…
She alone remains to all generations, always rejoicing. She subsists as she does by the endurance of us believers, who are the members of Christ…
The earthly Church [...]
A Church Father on TULIP
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“The liberty of believing or not believing is placed in free choice. In Deuteronomy, it says, ‘Look! I have set before your face life and death, good and evil. Choose for yourself life, that you may live.’”
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