"the church universal is best served not by attempting to write the one systematic [theology] for everyone but by distinctive theologies written in different ways from different perspectives. as such, theology represents an affirmation of god's mystery and majesty that is no more captured by one theology than by one cannonical gospel."
should divine authority reside in the canon or the community?
postmodern theology moves away from modernism and the scientific god who can only be subjectivly perceived, the dead god of nietzche, and uses methods such as deconstructive readings to see how the biblical texts relate to present day people. thus the question above. should one fear the changing or evolving conceptions of god and the place of the church, realizing that every reading of scripture, and the writings themselves, are conditoned and time, location, cultural and sexual bias? the postmodern mindset acknowledges that no one has the god's eye perspective, the deffinitive reading, on anything. so is our focus as christians to protect the tradition, the orthodoxy; to guard against change and the heresies of our fathers, or might we meet the transcendent god in our time realizing he is not bound by tie nor tradition, seeing him in our own time through our own eyes?
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Hey Ty, it has been a while. How is the job going? Anyway, if you are interested I started an online forum for Origin that has all kinds of topics. I thought you might be interested in joining the conversation. The address is origin.makeforum.org (leave off the www). Anyway, hope you are well and hopefully we can chat over the forum!
ryan
i'll check it out. been really busy, so i don't know how much i can chat.
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