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Date Posted: 23:45:35 10/30/02 Wed
Yeager,
Thanks for your commentary. Let me give you my idea of a new Christian, taking for granted the question of whether or not we need a new model...which itself is a big question. And maybe the new look could be a return to the original look in our times. Sola Scriptura.
Some have said that the current model is too dependant on the scientific enterprise that has enjoyed so much prosperity in the last century. Science tends to codify, predict, manipulate, test, organize, calculate, etc. How has this model been applied to Christianity? If I follow these rules or these steps, then I am a good Christian, I will be happy, and live a fulfilling life. Yeager, you referenced this in your commentary. The science of faith.
Now I think science is great in certain places. For instance, the triple blade razor is a scientific discover that I am most grateful. But maybe faith is not the proper place for science. Maybe instead of the scientific model, we could look to the aesthetic model. Maybe faith is more like art, than it is like science. An aesthetics of faith.
This is tricky business. All hell could break loose. Scientific Christianity tells us not to be risky, we must be able to predict.
Let me describe what I mean by the art of faith. It might look like a form of belief that is preoccupied with beauty. That someone who is a good Christian lives a life that is stylized in such a way that it is attractive and seductive. A life that has intensity that goes from ecstatic highs to horrifying lows...the beautiful and the sublime...all the while trying to bring pleasure to God. Instead of having a goal of being clear and distinct, we confuse and compel. After all, Jesus's parables weren't exactly systematic theology.
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