There’s a lot of good stuff here. I guess for me, denying that Gd is some sort of absolute truth or meaning doesn’t require nihilism, just a different view of Gd.
I love what you say about a spirituality that’s helpful to humanity; I’m often guilty of taking my spiritual warm fuzzies and running off home with them, instead of doing another human some good.
I am neither an Evangelical nor a fundamentalist, so what passes for popular "apologetics" today is irrelevant to me. The Bible was written by ancient people in an ancient context. It serves as a foundational document (a conversation partner) for the tradition. The task of theology is to interpret the gospel message (God is love) in a way that speaks through and to contemporary lived experience.
Thank you, Bo! I find this essay fascinating. I would also consider myself a postmodernist, but in more of the critical realist strain--there is a truth that we can approach asymptotically, through unending dialectic, garnering truths perspectivally along the way. This, I believe, is how God experiences us, all of us, compassionately and dynamically. So I accept your Feuerbachian epistemological position, but I take it in a progressive direction--as perhaps you do as well, in practice. And we both base our resulting (unstable) position in agape, which makes us theological kindred in the end. Godspeed you and your work.
There’s a lot of good stuff here. I guess for me, denying that Gd is some sort of absolute truth or meaning doesn’t require nihilism, just a different view of Gd.
I love what you say about a spirituality that’s helpful to humanity; I’m often guilty of taking my spiritual warm fuzzies and running off home with them, instead of doing another human some good.
Thank you. Fwiw, I'm guilty of that, too.
Interesting paradigm but will it stand up to the scrutiny of Scripture and what apologetic methodology are you working from?
I am neither an Evangelical nor a fundamentalist, so what passes for popular "apologetics" today is irrelevant to me. The Bible was written by ancient people in an ancient context. It serves as a foundational document (a conversation partner) for the tradition. The task of theology is to interpret the gospel message (God is love) in a way that speaks through and to contemporary lived experience.
Thank you, Bo! I find this essay fascinating. I would also consider myself a postmodernist, but in more of the critical realist strain--there is a truth that we can approach asymptotically, through unending dialectic, garnering truths perspectivally along the way. This, I believe, is how God experiences us, all of us, compassionately and dynamically. So I accept your Feuerbachian epistemological position, but I take it in a progressive direction--as perhaps you do as well, in practice. And we both base our resulting (unstable) position in agape, which makes us theological kindred in the end. Godspeed you and your work.
Thank you. I think that is a beautiful way to look at God and life in God. I'm glad you enjoyed the article. :-)