The focus of preaching and teaching turns to living a moral life, not a gospel-centered life. Non-Christians are lulled into thinking that they are okay in their lost state. Christians think that non-Christians are believers because they made a superficial outward commitment. The church baptizes those who are not believers. The church allows non-Christians into membership. Eventually, non-Christians become leaders in the church. A church becomes a subculture of nominalism.
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James K A Smith : Thinking in Tongues
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(1) an apologetic movement defending the “rights” of Christian philosophers to philosophize from out of their Christian commitments; (2) a related call to Christian philosophers to demonstrate more “autonomy” vis-à-vis the philosophical establishment and more “integrity” or “integrality” (p. 254) in their philosophizing; and (3) the need for Christian philosophy to display
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my wager is that there are five key aspects of a pentecostal worldview that
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A position of radical openness to God,
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An “enchanted” theology of creation and culture that perceives the material creation as “charged” with the presence of the Spirit
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A nondualistic affirmation of embodiment and materiality
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Pentecostal theology is rooted in an affective, narrative epistemology.
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An eschatological orientation to mission and justice,
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So, to speak of a worldview is to speak about our most fundamental orientation to the world; a framework that operates even prior to thought; a passional orientation of our imagination that filters and explains our experience of the world. It operates unconsciously at the very core of our identity. But precisely because a worldview is not just a rational system or set of cognitive beliefs, we might also consider a couple of related terms as near synonyms, and try to hear this in our use of the term “worldview.” In particular, I find Charles Taylor’s notion of a “social imaginary” and Amos Yong’s account of the
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So, to speak of a worldview is to speak about our most fundamental orientation to the world; a framework that operates even prior to thought; a passional orientation of our imagination that filters and explains our experience of the world. It operates unconsciously at the very core of our identity. But precisely because a worldview is not just a rational system or set of cognitive beliefs, we might also consider a couple of related terms as near synonyms, and try to hear this in our use of the term “worldview.” In particular, I find Charles Taylor’s notion of a “social imaginary” and Amos Yong’s account of the “pneumatological imagination” to be rich ways of naming what I’m trying to get at here.
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Heidegger distinguished between “knowledge” (Wissen) and “understanding” (Verstehen). “Knowledge” referred to the sort of standard picture of knowledge we usually assume — knowledge as justified true belief that traffics in objectified, propositional content.
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In this framework, Yong continues, “thinking itself is a selectively valuational enterprise, beginning with the imagination and proceeding toward interpretation, theory, and the pursuit of responsibility.”
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In other words, I think the birth of the body of Christ at Pentecost represents that the church is properly — and therefore should be — pentecostal. To be Christian is to be charismatic.105 Authentic, radical, catholic Christianity is properly charismatic or pentecostal. Therefore, I would suggest that the elements of what I’m calling a distinctively “pentecostal worldview” ought to be the elements of a (catholic) Christian worldview. However, insofar as the broader Christian — and especially evangelical — imagination has been captivated by a cessationist assumption, a pentecostal worldview in practice is not synonymous with a more generally Christian worldview.106 But I think the fullest, most authentic expression of radical discipleship is a Christian faith that is both catholic and charismatic.
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That is why I think Pentecost is really about radical openness to God — especially an openness to a God who exceeds our horizons of expectation and comes unexpectedly.
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“The book of Acts is the best source that we have to demonstrate what normal church life is supposed to look like when the Holy Spirit is present and working in the church. Here we find a church that has passion for God, is willing to sacrifice — even to the point of martyrdom — and is a miracle-working church.”
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This sense that all of creation — nature and culture — is charged with the presence of the Spirit is implicit in the prayers and practices of pentecostal spirituality.
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William Seymour found more “evidence” in racial reconciliation than glossolalia: “Seymour saw the breaking of the color line as a much surer sign than tongue-speaking of God’s blessing and of the Spirit’s
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Thus rather than the convergence we so often witness between Pentecostalism and prosperity — between the “full gospel” and big business — we ought to expect a certain confluence between “Marx and the Holy Ghost.”147
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What counts as “knowledge” is that which conforms to the calculable standards of logical operation. Or even worse, what counts as knowledge is only what can be reduced to “information” or data.
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Rather, narrative is a fundamental and irreducible mode of understanding — and “pentecostal knowledge” attested in testimony bears witness not only to the Spirit’s work but also to this epistemic reality.
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Pentecostal worship is “experiential” because it assumes a holistic understanding of personhood and agency — that the essence of the human animal cannot be reduced to reason or the intellect.
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In short, we feel our way around the world more than we think about it, before we think about it.
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affectivity and emotion are central to pentecostal spirituality because they implicitly recognize that our being-in-the-world is primarily and for the most part “driven” at an unconscious, affective, predeliberative level.
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Emotions are themselves “takes” on the world — irreducible, precognitive construals and interpretations that constitute the world for us in particular ways even before we “think” about it or “perceive”
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And if our emotions construe the world before and more often than our intellectual, cognitive perceptions, then the shape of our emotions makes our world most of the time — in which case, discipleship would be more a matter of training our emotions than of changing our minds. It is this intuition that I think is inchoately central in pentecostal worship and spirituality.
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“Religious” films almost always reduce to propaganda; that is, they let the “facts” of a “message” or doctrine trump the imaginative, aesthetic aspect of the art. For a discussion of the tendency of “Christian” art to devolve to propaganda (shutting down “allusivity”),
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In this way, pentecostal filmmaking might be an analogue of pentecostal worship: a space in which God’s Spirit breaks in to fantastically give a foretaste of the coming kingdom.
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Lubac struggled to articulate a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, that nature is oriented to the supernatural and that this orientation to the supernatural is “natural” (i.e., constitutive of creaturehood
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The key here is that this dynamic, participatory ontology refuses the static ontologies that presume the autonomy of nature.
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on the one hand, religious themes and questions once again became legitimate topics for philosophical reflection; on the other hand, and perhaps more radically, a critique of the supposed neutrality and objectivity of philosophical reason opened the space for religious philosophy — that is, philosophical reflection undertaken from
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religion was reintroduced as a legitimate mainstream topic of consideration (objective genitive), and religion was admitted as a legitimate orienting perspective for philosophical research and reflection (subjective genitive).
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This developed into a more robust renewal of “philosophical theology” now exemplified in the work of Eleonore Stump, Marilyn Adams, Stephen Davis, Brian Hebblethwaite, Brian Leftow, and many others.287
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I consider glossolalia in light of three contemporary modes of philosophical analysis of language: (1) phenomenology, engaging Husserl and Derrida in particular; (2) philosophical hermeneutics, drawing on Heidegger and Gadamer; and (3) speech act theory in the wake of Austin and Searle.
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The cases suggested in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians are a little more complicated. On the one hand, Paul seems to chastise the Corinthians for tongues-speech that does not properly communicate meaning: “There are perhaps a great many kinds of languages in the world,” the apostle notes, “and no kind is without meaning. If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me” (1 Cor. 14:10-11). This is why Paul requires that tongues-speech be accompanied by interpretation (or translation, 1 Cor. 14:13, 27). So here the goal of tongues-speech is communicative, in which case it again can be mapped onto Husserl’s schema.
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the “linguistic turn”: the fundamental assertion (now the received position, as it were) that our being-in-the-world is fundamentally constituted by language, or at least by an interpretive mode.341
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the locutionary act, which involves the vocal utterance of phonemes and/or sentences; (2) the illocutionary act, which is what one intends to “get done” in the utterance (e.g., promising, commanding, asserting, etc.); and (3) the perlocutionary act, which refers to the effect of the utterance (and illocutionary act) on the hearer(s).
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One might say that such a prayer in such a context is a kind of sacramental practice of emptying, recognizing the failure of even language to measure up to such an exchange. Glossolalic prayer is a means of making oneself both receptive to and a conduit of the Spirit’s work.
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This account could be substantiated historically (see, e.g., Steve Land and others on early Pentecostal community),377 but I want to consider this from a contemporary perspective enlisting some insights from the social sciences coupled with the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse and the neo-Marxism of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. What we will find, I suggest, is a certain confluence between “Marx and the Holy Ghost.”378
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In other words, tongues-speech is a discourse that is symbolic of a deeper and broader desire to resist and call into question the existing economic and political structures. It is the language of a countercultural “exilic” community.387
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(1) an apologetic movement defending the “rights” of Christian philosophers to philosophize from out of their Christian commitments; (2) a related call to Christian philosophers to demonstrate more “autonomy” vis-à-vis the philosophical establishment and more “integrity” or “integrality” (p. 254) in their philosophizing; and (3) the need for Christian philosophy to display
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my wager is that there are five key aspects of a pentecostal worldview that
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A position of radical openness to God,
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An “enchanted” theology of creation and culture that perceives the material creation as “charged” with the presence of the Spirit
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- Seu destaque ou posição 631-632 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2015 22:54:12
A nondualistic affirmation of embodiment and materiality
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Pentecostal theology is rooted in an affective, narrative epistemology.
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An eschatological orientation to mission and justice,
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So, to speak of a worldview is to speak about our most fundamental orientation to the world; a framework that operates even prior to thought; a passional orientation of our imagination that filters and explains our experience of the world. It operates unconsciously at the very core of our identity. But precisely because a worldview is not just a rational system or set of cognitive beliefs, we might also consider a couple of related terms as near synonyms, and try to hear this in our use of the term “worldview.” In particular, I find Charles Taylor’s notion of a “social imaginary” and Amos Yong’s account of the
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- Seu destaque ou posição 927-932 | Adicionado: domingo, 22 de novembro de 2015 09:50:14
So, to speak of a worldview is to speak about our most fundamental orientation to the world; a framework that operates even prior to thought; a passional orientation of our imagination that filters and explains our experience of the world. It operates unconsciously at the very core of our identity. But precisely because a worldview is not just a rational system or set of cognitive beliefs, we might also consider a couple of related terms as near synonyms, and try to hear this in our use of the term “worldview.” In particular, I find Charles Taylor’s notion of a “social imaginary” and Amos Yong’s account of the “pneumatological imagination” to be rich ways of naming what I’m trying to get at here.
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Heidegger distinguished between “knowledge” (Wissen) and “understanding” (Verstehen). “Knowledge” referred to the sort of standard picture of knowledge we usually assume — knowledge as justified true belief that traffics in objectified, propositional content.
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In this framework, Yong continues, “thinking itself is a selectively valuational enterprise, beginning with the imagination and proceeding toward interpretation, theory, and the pursuit of responsibility.”
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In other words, I think the birth of the body of Christ at Pentecost represents that the church is properly — and therefore should be — pentecostal. To be Christian is to be charismatic.105 Authentic, radical, catholic Christianity is properly charismatic or pentecostal. Therefore, I would suggest that the elements of what I’m calling a distinctively “pentecostal worldview” ought to be the elements of a (catholic) Christian worldview. However, insofar as the broader Christian — and especially evangelical — imagination has been captivated by a cessationist assumption, a pentecostal worldview in practice is not synonymous with a more generally Christian worldview.106 But I think the fullest, most authentic expression of radical discipleship is a Christian faith that is both catholic and charismatic.
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That is why I think Pentecost is really about radical openness to God — especially an openness to a God who exceeds our horizons of expectation and comes unexpectedly.
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“The book of Acts is the best source that we have to demonstrate what normal church life is supposed to look like when the Holy Spirit is present and working in the church. Here we find a church that has passion for God, is willing to sacrifice — even to the point of martyrdom — and is a miracle-working church.”
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This sense that all of creation — nature and culture — is charged with the presence of the Spirit is implicit in the prayers and practices of pentecostal spirituality.
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William Seymour found more “evidence” in racial reconciliation than glossolalia: “Seymour saw the breaking of the color line as a much surer sign than tongue-speaking of God’s blessing and of the Spirit’s
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Thus rather than the convergence we so often witness between Pentecostalism and prosperity — between the “full gospel” and big business — we ought to expect a certain confluence between “Marx and the Holy Ghost.”147
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What counts as “knowledge” is that which conforms to the calculable standards of logical operation. Or even worse, what counts as knowledge is only what can be reduced to “information” or data.
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Rather, narrative is a fundamental and irreducible mode of understanding — and “pentecostal knowledge” attested in testimony bears witness not only to the Spirit’s work but also to this epistemic reality.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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Pentecostal worship is “experiential” because it assumes a holistic understanding of personhood and agency — that the essence of the human animal cannot be reduced to reason or the intellect.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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In short, we feel our way around the world more than we think about it, before we think about it.
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affectivity and emotion are central to pentecostal spirituality because they implicitly recognize that our being-in-the-world is primarily and for the most part “driven” at an unconscious, affective, predeliberative level.
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Emotions are themselves “takes” on the world — irreducible, precognitive construals and interpretations that constitute the world for us in particular ways even before we “think” about it or “perceive”
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And if our emotions construe the world before and more often than our intellectual, cognitive perceptions, then the shape of our emotions makes our world most of the time — in which case, discipleship would be more a matter of training our emotions than of changing our minds. It is this intuition that I think is inchoately central in pentecostal worship and spirituality.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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“Religious” films almost always reduce to propaganda; that is, they let the “facts” of a “message” or doctrine trump the imaginative, aesthetic aspect of the art. For a discussion of the tendency of “Christian” art to devolve to propaganda (shutting down “allusivity”),
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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In this way, pentecostal filmmaking might be an analogue of pentecostal worship: a space in which God’s Spirit breaks in to fantastically give a foretaste of the coming kingdom.
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Lubac struggled to articulate a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, that nature is oriented to the supernatural and that this orientation to the supernatural is “natural” (i.e., constitutive of creaturehood
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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The key here is that this dynamic, participatory ontology refuses the static ontologies that presume the autonomy of nature.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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on the one hand, religious themes and questions once again became legitimate topics for philosophical reflection; on the other hand, and perhaps more radically, a critique of the supposed neutrality and objectivity of philosophical reason opened the space for religious philosophy — that is, philosophical reflection undertaken from
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religion was reintroduced as a legitimate mainstream topic of consideration (objective genitive), and religion was admitted as a legitimate orienting perspective for philosophical research and reflection (subjective genitive).
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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This developed into a more robust renewal of “philosophical theology” now exemplified in the work of Eleonore Stump, Marilyn Adams, Stephen Davis, Brian Hebblethwaite, Brian Leftow, and many others.287
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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I consider glossolalia in light of three contemporary modes of philosophical analysis of language: (1) phenomenology, engaging Husserl and Derrida in particular; (2) philosophical hermeneutics, drawing on Heidegger and Gadamer; and (3) speech act theory in the wake of Austin and Searle.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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The cases suggested in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians are a little more complicated. On the one hand, Paul seems to chastise the Corinthians for tongues-speech that does not properly communicate meaning: “There are perhaps a great many kinds of languages in the world,” the apostle notes, “and no kind is without meaning. If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me” (1 Cor. 14:10-11). This is why Paul requires that tongues-speech be accompanied by interpretation (or translation, 1 Cor. 14:13, 27). So here the goal of tongues-speech is communicative, in which case it again can be mapped onto Husserl’s schema.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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the “linguistic turn”: the fundamental assertion (now the received position, as it were) that our being-in-the-world is fundamentally constituted by language, or at least by an interpretive mode.341
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the locutionary act, which involves the vocal utterance of phonemes and/or sentences; (2) the illocutionary act, which is what one intends to “get done” in the utterance (e.g., promising, commanding, asserting, etc.); and (3) the perlocutionary act, which refers to the effect of the utterance (and illocutionary act) on the hearer(s).
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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One might say that such a prayer in such a context is a kind of sacramental practice of emptying, recognizing the failure of even language to measure up to such an exchange. Glossolalic prayer is a means of making oneself both receptive to and a conduit of the Spirit’s work.
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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This account could be substantiated historically (see, e.g., Steve Land and others on early Pentecostal community),377 but I want to consider this from a contemporary perspective enlisting some insights from the social sciences coupled with the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse and the neo-Marxism of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. What we will find, I suggest, is a certain confluence between “Marx and the Holy Ghost.”378
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B004IZL4H6 EBOK (Smith, James K. A.)
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In other words, tongues-speech is a discourse that is symbolic of a deeper and broader desire to resist and call into question the existing economic and political structures. It is the language of a countercultural “exilic” community.387
Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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We can summarize the atheist picture, therefore, in two doctrines: that everything happens in accordance with the laws of nature; and that those laws are contingent, summarizing the way things are, and being without any further explanation. We know that the universe is without a plan and without a goal – not because we have looked for those things and failed to find them, but because nothing discoverable to science could count as a plan or a goal for the universe in its entirety. Plans and goals are biological features of individual organisms, which are systems within the on-going stream of physical events, just like everything else.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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The simple answer is that belief is a form of membership when it defines a community. By signing up to the doctrine you are incorporated into the community. And this incorporation is regularly reaffirmed through sacred rites that signify, in some way, the collective relation of the community to its God.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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You can situate human beings entirely in the world of objects. In doing so you will in all probability reduce them to animals whose behaviour is to be explained by some combination of evolutionary psychology and neuroscience. But then you will find yourself describing a world from which human action, intention, responsibility, freedom and emotion have been wiped away: it will be a world without a face. The face shines in the world of objects with a light that is not of this world – the light of subjectivity.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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This recalls Kant’s ‘transcendental unity of apperception’. A self-conscious being, Kant argued, apprehends the unity of the I, and this unity is transcendental in that it is not something that the subject arrives at by way of a conclusion, but something presupposed in all his knowledge, including the knowledge that he has of himself.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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This is the error of supposing that the subject can be understood as objects are understood, through categories of substance and cause. The subject is the view from somewhere, but does not appear within that view: for if it did so I might misidentify it, or even conclude that there is no such thing.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Persons are the kind of thing that can recognize others as persons and be recognized in turn as persons.7
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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But that is not true. He dies in the service of others. His motive is one of self-sacrifice, on behalf of his troops – a motive that is available only to a subject who distinguishes self and other, who has the concept of sacrifice, and who can make a gift of his life to another like himself. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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‘There is no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face’:
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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The crucial point is that even when serving a biological purpose, my face remains under my jurisdiction. It is the place where I am in the world of objects, and the place from which I address you.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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In a once widely read book, Eros and Agape, the Swedish Protestant theologian Anders Nygren
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1961-1964 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2015 22:15:50
Eating the forbidden fruit means believing that it is for us to define the distinction between good and evil. We then rewrite the distinction in purely human terms: good and evil become benefit and cost, so that nothing is holy, nothing is consecrated, nothing is rescued from barter and exchange. We deal with the world by pricing it.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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That tentative theory of the sacred is not a piece of empirical anthropology; nor is it an exercise in genealogy, of the kind given by René Girard in his account of ritual sacrifice. According to Girard, all societies are embroiled in conflict, due to the ‘mimetic desire’ of their members.3 This rivalry through imitation threatens to blow the community apart, and traps its members into cycles of revenge. In every community, however, there are those who are marked out as Other by some existential fault, such as incest, kingship, hubris or some similar sign of ontological ‘apartness’. By selecting such a person as victim and putting him to death the community can escape the cycle of
- Seu destaque ou posição 136-140 | Adicionado: domingo, 6 de dezembro de 2015 01:11:08
We can summarize the atheist picture, therefore, in two doctrines: that everything happens in accordance with the laws of nature; and that those laws are contingent, summarizing the way things are, and being without any further explanation. We know that the universe is without a plan and without a goal – not because we have looked for those things and failed to find them, but because nothing discoverable to science could count as a plan or a goal for the universe in its entirety. Plans and goals are biological features of individual organisms, which are systems within the on-going stream of physical events, just like everything else.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 305-307 | Adicionado: domingo, 6 de dezembro de 2015 09:44:32
The simple answer is that belief is a form of membership when it defines a community. By signing up to the doctrine you are incorporated into the community. And this incorporation is regularly reaffirmed through sacred rites that signify, in some way, the collective relation of the community to its God.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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You can situate human beings entirely in the world of objects. In doing so you will in all probability reduce them to animals whose behaviour is to be explained by some combination of evolutionary psychology and neuroscience. But then you will find yourself describing a world from which human action, intention, responsibility, freedom and emotion have been wiped away: it will be a world without a face. The face shines in the world of objects with a light that is not of this world – the light of subjectivity.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 942-944 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2015 23:02:08
This recalls Kant’s ‘transcendental unity of apperception’. A self-conscious being, Kant argued, apprehends the unity of the I, and this unity is transcendental in that it is not something that the subject arrives at by way of a conclusion, but something presupposed in all his knowledge, including the knowledge that he has of himself.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 977-979 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2015 23:10:44
This is the error of supposing that the subject can be understood as objects are understood, through categories of substance and cause. The subject is the view from somewhere, but does not appear within that view: for if it did so I might misidentify it, or even conclude that there is no such thing.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1019-1021 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2015 23:29:37
Persons are the kind of thing that can recognize others as persons and be recognized in turn as persons.7
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1111-1114 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2015 23:56:12
But that is not true. He dies in the service of others. His motive is one of self-sacrifice, on behalf of his troops – a motive that is available only to a subject who distinguishes self and other, who has the concept of sacrifice, and who can make a gift of his life to another like himself. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1326-1326 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 8 de dezembro de 2015 23:51:42
‘There is no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face’:
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1352-1353 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 8 de dezembro de 2015 23:56:49
The crucial point is that even when serving a biological purpose, my face remains under my jurisdiction. It is the place where I am in the world of objects, and the place from which I address you.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1575-1576 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2015 14:29:55
In a once widely read book, Eros and Agape, the Swedish Protestant theologian Anders Nygren
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1961-1964 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2015 22:15:50
Eating the forbidden fruit means believing that it is for us to define the distinction between good and evil. We then rewrite the distinction in purely human terms: good and evil become benefit and cost, so that nothing is holy, nothing is consecrated, nothing is rescued from barter and exchange. We deal with the world by pricing it.
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (Scruton, Roger)
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That tentative theory of the sacred is not a piece of empirical anthropology; nor is it an exercise in genealogy, of the kind given by René Girard in his account of ritual sacrifice. According to Girard, all societies are embroiled in conflict, due to the ‘mimetic desire’ of their members.3 This rivalry through imitation threatens to blow the community apart, and traps its members into cycles of revenge. In every community, however, there are those who are marked out as Other by some existential fault, such as incest, kingship, hubris or some similar sign of ontological ‘apartness’. By selecting such a person as victim and putting him to death the community can escape the cycle of
Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
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Unfortunately, when opposed by the world, we courageous Christians tend to succumb to pessimism. We defend the doctrines of grace without grace and confuse rejection of us with rejection of Jesus. But Jesus didn’t give up on his foolish disciples. He even forgave his murderers from the cross. And he didn’t give up on you and me in our sin. So pessimism doesn’t make us heroic. Courage that counts makes you faithful in whatever place and position God has given you. This courage makes you fervent in spirit, patient in tribulation, and constant in prayer as you serve the Lord with zeal, always rejoicing in his sure hope (Rom. 12:11–12). And the challenges we face in a changing world will weed out all but the fervent,
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
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Courage cannot be separated from humility, grace, compassion, or love. Courage can look like John the Baptist denouncing Herod for taking his brother’s wife. And it can look like the Master kneeling to wash his disciples’ feet.
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
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Genuine courage develops not only when we study the Bible and fight for truth but also when we pray, when we pass through the waters of baptism, when we take the Lord’s Supper, when we enjoy the fellowship of the body of Christ as a member of a local church. Courage, finally, is not so much something we do for God but something we humbly receive from him as a gift. And if it belongs to us as a gift, then it’s something God intends for us to share for the good of others.
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
- Seu destaque ou posição 841-846 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2016 20:57:35
Unfortunately, when opposed by the world, we courageous Christians tend to succumb to pessimism. We defend the doctrines of grace without grace and confuse rejection of us with rejection of Jesus. But Jesus didn’t give up on his foolish disciples. He even forgave his murderers from the cross. And he didn’t give up on you and me in our sin. So pessimism doesn’t make us heroic. Courage that counts makes you faithful in whatever place and position God has given you. This courage makes you fervent in spirit, patient in tribulation, and constant in prayer as you serve the Lord with zeal, always rejoicing in his sure hope (Rom. 12:11–12). And the challenges we face in a changing world will weed out all but the fervent,
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
- Seu destaque ou posição 949-951 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2016 21:13:49
Courage cannot be separated from humility, grace, compassion, or love. Courage can look like John the Baptist denouncing Herod for taking his brother’s wife. And it can look like the Master kneeling to wash his disciples’ feet.
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
- Seu destaque ou posição 952-956 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2016 21:14:07
Genuine courage develops not only when we study the Bible and fight for truth but also when we pray, when we pass through the waters of baptism, when we take the Lord’s Supper, when we enjoy the fellowship of the body of Christ as a member of a local church. Courage, finally, is not so much something we do for God but something we humbly receive from him as a gift. And if it belongs to us as a gift, then it’s something God intends for us to share for the good of others.
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Blind Spots: Becoming a Courageous, Compassionate, and Commissioned Church (Cultural Renewal) (Collin Hansen)
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“É a submissão”, disse suavemente Rediger. “A ideia assombrosa e simples, jamais expressada antes com essa força, de que o auge da felicidade humana reside na submissão mais absoluta. É uma ideia que eu hesitaria em expor perante meus correligionários, que eles talvez julgassem blasfematória, mas para mim há uma relação entre a absoluta submissão da mulher ao homem, tal como a descreve Histoire d’O, e a submissão do homem a Deus, tal como o encara o islã. Veja bem”, continuou, “o islã aceita o mundo, e aceita-o em sua integralidade, aceita o mundo como ele é, para falar como Nietzsche. O ponto de vista do budismo é que o mundo é dukkha — inadequação, sofrimento. O próprio cristianismo manifesta sérias reservas — Satanás não é qualificado como ‘príncipe deste mundo’? Para o islã, ao contrário, a criação divina é perfeita, é uma obra-prima completa. No fundo, o que é o Alcorão senão um imenso poema místico de louvação? De louvação ao Criador e de submissão às suas leis. Em geral
“Quando o governo viola os direitos do povo, a insurreição é, para o povo e para cada porção do povo, o mais sagrado dos direitos e o mais indispensável dos deveres”.
Submissão (Michel Houellebecq)
“Quando o governo viola os direitos do povo, a insurreição é, para o povo e para cada porção do povo, o mais sagrado dos direitos e o mais indispensável dos deveres”.
Submissão (Michel Houellebecq)
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