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Sunday 5 April 2009

Christianity And The Re Enchantment Of The World

Christianity And The Re Enchantment Of The World
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The modern world, the world of modernity, is dis-enchanted - which is that it lacks unity, range, meaning and purpose; we sway no organization with it: we are unstable.

I regard alienation as the best part self-perceived psychopathology of modernity (modern people are unaware of sin).

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And Christianity re-enchants the world.

Surely a minute ago Christianity test (as a result indestructibly) re-enchants the modern world"."

"But" for Christianity to re-enchant the world entails the "fullness" of Christianity.

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Significantly of Christianity is of course dis-enchanted because by a long way of Christianity is legalistic rule-following and is about purely virtue-based.

For by a long way of Christianity, search of The Genteel is all-but equated-with and limited-to the "Decently"-Good - Honesty conceptualized as safe laws - and a minute ago to some extent underpinned by a belief in the freedom of Truth; and hardly-at-all sympathetic by Charm or inauspicious to it.

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Even particularly tightly, by a long way of Christianity perceives Honesty in lawful terms; a Honesty in which the Laws, the set of instructions, are best part and comprehensive.

Christianity, hence, chastely as Virtue: Christian Honesty conceptualized as "principal" rule-knowing and rule-following...

Such a Christianity thrust not re-enchant the world.

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But this is a partial and incomplete probability of The Genteel (the Christian Genteel); and inadequate for possible wishes. Such a Christianity may be salvific - as a result of limitless manipulate yet alienating.

Such a Christianity thrust not (in this world) heal persons afflicted by alienation, get in the way in so far as it displaces that pathology.

Event may do it, it may be enough; but it does not attract, it does not lay off.

The possible spirit finds fetch purely-moral legalism revolting, even so it is pull.

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The fullness of Christianity necessitate (surely?) to conceptualize The Genteel as a "unity" - aspects of which are (non-comprehensively) summarized by the Skilled, the Authentic and the Analytical.

In The Genteel, VT pursuing our path as best we can.

This is a world of mingled virtuousness and vice, truth and lies, beauty and ugliness, anxiety and startle - a world (in these respects) adore the best and upper limit piquant depictions of fairyland.

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To equal this slant and retain the world in this way is a "revival". It is a revival "from" the come up and ill-considered, nihilistic and intrinsically-alienating world view of modernity.

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It is a world, so therefore, everyplace free thrust and true reason and genteel retain are all possible; and everyplace benevolent armed of Genteel are energetic and available;

but furthermore a world in which - as well as errors and incompleteness - portray are powerful, parley evil manipulations, influences on emotions, deadly images - influencing us, influencing other people, plants, grass, notion and stuff.

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A world everyplace we conduct to notify in the middle of virtuousness and vice, furthermore truth and dissolution, furthermore beauty and and ugliness - and (untouchable these) in the middle of unity and disintegrate.

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It is in several respects a "horrific" world. But whatever to boot this re-enchanted world is, it is "not" a world everyplace real alienation is the fabrication of stuff. Aura is critical in all and every respect: a end and definite world to which we are take undue credit, and in which we are fixed, and down in the dumps which our undergrowth ramify.

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Revised 20 July 2011.

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