This was a great read. Modern people fail to understand why Christianity grew as it did, and this article clears up the picture, while it offers fruits for thought. The main point kind of goes along with my recent article commenting on Cohen's song/poem Steer Your Way, which after a careful read laments the disenchantment and desacramentation of the world.
I really like this article. I have to come back to it and digest it bits at a time, but I recently had the desire to read the Westminster Shorter Carechism with a similar (if not similarly articulated) framing. The idea that the Christianity is not a religion but a way of being that seeks the kingdom of God. And that this seeking reorients a person in this world as signified by the first question of the catechism: What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
As far as I am concerned, Christ is all that truly matters, and civilizations are a secondary concern (if at all). To paraphrase Augustine, we are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, not of this world. I think those who debate how useful Christianity is for their petty politics have no understanding of apotheosis. And yes, I would take a devoted Mexican Christian over a degenerate of European extract any day.
This was a great read. Modern people fail to understand why Christianity grew as it did, and this article clears up the picture, while it offers fruits for thought. The main point kind of goes along with my recent article commenting on Cohen's song/poem Steer Your Way, which after a careful read laments the disenchantment and desacramentation of the world.
I really like this article. I have to come back to it and digest it bits at a time, but I recently had the desire to read the Westminster Shorter Carechism with a similar (if not similarly articulated) framing. The idea that the Christianity is not a religion but a way of being that seeks the kingdom of God. And that this seeking reorients a person in this world as signified by the first question of the catechism: What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
As far as I am concerned, Christ is all that truly matters, and civilizations are a secondary concern (if at all). To paraphrase Augustine, we are citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, not of this world. I think those who debate how useful Christianity is for their petty politics have no understanding of apotheosis. And yes, I would take a devoted Mexican Christian over a degenerate of European extract any day.