A New Christian Vision
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A New Christian Vision
by comradeinchrist on Sun Sep 07, 2008 10:16 pm
I've been reading a lot of different Christian writers and I have a strong feeling that a new understanding of Christianity is bubbling beneath the surface. Does anyone else feel that there is a revolution waiting to happen?
For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes, but what you would like to be.
--- from the Cloud of Unknowing.
Intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
--- Northrop Frye
--- from the Cloud of Unknowing.
Intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
--- Northrop Frye
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Re: A New Christian Vision
by UMSonOfMan7 on Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:54 pm
Perhaps. Can you say a little more about what you mean?
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to care for orphans and widows in their distress,
and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
--James 1:27
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Re: A New Christian Vision
by jonesy on Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:41 pm
I would certainly hope that something new is about to happen. Sometimes I don't feel like Christianity is about love any longer. And as John Lennon put it, "All you need is love".
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Re: A New Christian Vision
by comradeinchrist on Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:45 pm
I think that you hit the nail on the head Jonesy. I am not sure where I was at when I started this thread.
I think that we have to understand that there is not "One Way" (if I can go back to my evangelical days in the '70s). There are many paths to God and a relationship with the numinous. I have a fairly Libertarian view of spirituality. It is time for the religious establishment to get out of the way and let each of us express our spiritual nature in our own way.
I think that we have to understand that there is not "One Way" (if I can go back to my evangelical days in the '70s). There are many paths to God and a relationship with the numinous. I have a fairly Libertarian view of spirituality. It is time for the religious establishment to get out of the way and let each of us express our spiritual nature in our own way.
For it is not what you are nor what you have been that God regards with his most merciful eyes, but what you would like to be.
--- from the Cloud of Unknowing.
Intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
--- Northrop Frye
--- from the Cloud of Unknowing.
Intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
--- Northrop Frye
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Re: A New Christian Vision
by Basil_oz on Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:17 am
I reckon that one of the defining attributes of the Christian faith (at least in its early days) was a new understanding and revolution bubbling underneath.
It still should be!
To me faith is very fluid. Yes there are scriptures and doctrines and laws to guide, but the essence of faith is fluid and we can even see the malleable nature of faith expressed in the scriptures.
Thank goodness for that because it allows the ebbs and flows of faith in our own lives to exist without condemnation.
It still should be!
To me faith is very fluid. Yes there are scriptures and doctrines and laws to guide, but the essence of faith is fluid and we can even see the malleable nature of faith expressed in the scriptures.
Thank goodness for that because it allows the ebbs and flows of faith in our own lives to exist without condemnation.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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Seagulls "Mate! Mate... mate...mate!" Finding Nemo
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