While not directed related to yesterday’s post (Hans Boersma interview) there are links that could be developed if you overlaid it with a recent Nijay Gupta post who offers some very useful reflections under the heading: “Creed, Worldview, and Counter-Reality”
“…God doesn’t care for you to invest in a belief that doesn’t change you.
Put another way, if a core Christian belief doesn’t affect who you are and how you live, it has not served its purpose. God is not in the business of checking beliefs off of some kind of divine list so that people can go to heaven. In order to make good sense of the centrality of Christian creeds, we must be able to connect it to worldview. Worldview is, obviously, how we look at all of reality. It is the lens through which we view ourselves, the people around us; it shapes our values, our view of time and space, our appreciation of art and beauty, who we become friends with, what job we choose, how we spend money and strength; worldview dictates what we think is right and wrong. If we have failed to teach young Christians about worldview, we have basically failed them altogether!”
You can read the rest of his post here.
For more on “world views” I’d recommend as introductory texts Tom Sine’s books. More academic? Try Brian Walsh (and Richard Middleton) or Michael Goheen (and Craig Bartholomew). In terms of embodying and enacting a counter-reality, I’d recommend works by William Stringfellow.
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