We do need new ways to talk about God and Jesus. That’s why I love Bishop Barron’s sermons and books - he knows and integrates scripture and philosophy and his deep understanding of man. His description of God, based on Thomas Aquinas’ work is stunning and it helped me better understand who God is and how He works.
I was brought up Anglican. In fact, my father was an Anglican priest. Some say the move away from scripture, and the poor education of the « third sons » who were offered to the Anglican church as clergy created Anglican cultural Christians. Time for more Jesus.
Dear Andrew, While I am not toga draped nor cloud floating, I am so full of words, words tumbling around as they all seek first expression. Your writing and speaking often leaves me in such a state. But after all, you are on a mission from God. I wonder whether the time in which I am living needs not new words but revelatory words of gleaming, genuine Glory, Honor and Power, and Love beyond description. Such words abide in my life because of four men: my father, and three pastors. Between them, they had studied great philosophers and Reformed Christianity, learned the songs of hymn writers like Charles Wesley, filled me up with reflections on novels like Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, the works of Lewis and Tolkien, and on, and on, and on. At 73, I am one lucky girl. Even now, I recall the words which open John’s gospel. I wonder what Nietzsche might have felt, spoken, at the Foot of the Cross. Perhaps a weeping without words. Katherine
"In other words, the assumption of post-Nietzschean man is that religion is something we only used until more scientific remedies became available."
Its (pick a year 1873) Base on what was known through science a reasonably good argument could be made for the Materialist/Atheists view. The Problem is (IMO) as time has gone on, and we have leaned more and more though science, How The Universe Works, the weaker and weaker Materialist/Atheists view has become. I do not understand how any reasonably intelligent person who has Looked at it, can still hold to that view today. There's a good chance I'm missing something but I Don't Get It.
Science is the study of Gods work (the laws of nature ) religion is the study of its meaning both get wrong GPS signals from time to time when the signal goes out. Then for a while it’s not uncommon for both practitioners to disappear down dark alleys , cul-de-sacs , over cliffs and bogged down in swamps.
But we learn as much from the mistakes of suffering as from success. As humanity seems to need a contrast to know the good the truth,& beauty from the bad the lies & the ugly to move forward.
To avoid the need for the negative trinity one needs embrace the search for meaning and faith in that will bring the positive trinity. Seek and you will find (Mathew 7: 7
We do need new ways to talk about God and Jesus. That’s why I love Bishop Barron’s sermons and books - he knows and integrates scripture and philosophy and his deep understanding of man. His description of God, based on Thomas Aquinas’ work is stunning and it helped me better understand who God is and how He works.
I was brought up Anglican. In fact, my father was an Anglican priest. Some say the move away from scripture, and the poor education of the « third sons » who were offered to the Anglican church as clergy created Anglican cultural Christians. Time for more Jesus.
Dear Andrew, While I am not toga draped nor cloud floating, I am so full of words, words tumbling around as they all seek first expression. Your writing and speaking often leaves me in such a state. But after all, you are on a mission from God. I wonder whether the time in which I am living needs not new words but revelatory words of gleaming, genuine Glory, Honor and Power, and Love beyond description. Such words abide in my life because of four men: my father, and three pastors. Between them, they had studied great philosophers and Reformed Christianity, learned the songs of hymn writers like Charles Wesley, filled me up with reflections on novels like Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, the works of Lewis and Tolkien, and on, and on, and on. At 73, I am one lucky girl. Even now, I recall the words which open John’s gospel. I wonder what Nietzsche might have felt, spoken, at the Foot of the Cross. Perhaps a weeping without words. Katherine
"In other words, the assumption of post-Nietzschean man is that religion is something we only used until more scientific remedies became available."
Its (pick a year 1873) Base on what was known through science a reasonably good argument could be made for the Materialist/Atheists view. The Problem is (IMO) as time has gone on, and we have leaned more and more though science, How The Universe Works, the weaker and weaker Materialist/Atheists view has become. I do not understand how any reasonably intelligent person who has Looked at it, can still hold to that view today. There's a good chance I'm missing something but I Don't Get It.
As Louis Pasteur said, “A bit of science distances one from God, but much science nears one to Him.”
Science is the study of Gods work (the laws of nature ) religion is the study of its meaning both get wrong GPS signals from time to time when the signal goes out. Then for a while it’s not uncommon for both practitioners to disappear down dark alleys , cul-de-sacs , over cliffs and bogged down in swamps.
But we learn as much from the mistakes of suffering as from success. As humanity seems to need a contrast to know the good the truth,& beauty from the bad the lies & the ugly to move forward.
To avoid the need for the negative trinity one needs embrace the search for meaning and faith in that will bring the positive trinity. Seek and you will find (Mathew 7: 7