Good article…
A good friend of mine, fellow student, and fellow postmodern thinker linked me to a site for Mars Hill Grad School, kind of a journal/opinion site. Lots of good articles there but one stuck out to me in particular this afternoon, read parts of it in various classes today… oops!
Its a pretty weighty article. Lots of theology as well as philosophy (amazing how closely mixed these two get). Try hard to understand, ’cause it makes a good point. I guess basically, it asks the question, what does it mean to be ‘religious’? The author, Ronald Kuipers, speaks of today’s dominant culture as being an “Amnesiac Society” or one that, affected by hyper-individualism that the modernist mindset has brought on, has forgotten or lost the sense of history, of tradition, about where our beliefs come from and how that affects those beliefs. This stretches into all aspects of our beliefs, including ethics, religion, truth, value of life, etc. Memory of history, as opposed to the categorization, compartmentalization, and localization of truth, especially in the context of Christianity is worth pursuing. Again, I’m amazed at the ties between philosophy, theology, and I guess real life. Kuipers brings it all down in the end to speak of how we must see the whole of God’s work in history, into the present, connected with our belief about the future, to see how we are to live now, as reflectors of the image of God.
