the church e m ergi ng in a postal age
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the church e m ergi ng in a postal age. Psalm 131 A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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the church emerging
in a postal age
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Psalm 131A song of ascents. Of David.
My heart is not proud, O LORD,my eyes are not haughty;I do not concern myself with great mattersor things too wonderful for me.
But I have stilled and quieted my soul;like a weaned child with its mother,like a weaned child is my soul within me.
O Israel, put your hope in the LORDboth now and forevermore.
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choluteca river bridge
after hurricane mitch, honduras, CA 1998
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In your hearts, set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect...1 Peter 3:15-16
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2500+ BC
Prehistoric World
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2500+ BC
Prehistoric World
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2500 BC - 500 AD
Ancient World
1 AD500 BC 500 AD
Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman empires
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2500 BC - 500 AD
Ancient World
1 AD500 BC 500 AD
Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman empires
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2500 BC - 500 AD
Ancient World
1 AD500 BC 500 AD
Medieval World
500 AD - 1500 AD
1500 AD
Printing/GutenbergCaravel/TransportGuns/Infantry/ArtilleryNew EconomyCopernicus/GalileoReformation/Luther
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2500 BC - 500 AD
Ancient World
1 AD500 BC 500 AD
Medieval World
500 AD - 1500 AD
1500 AD
Printing/GutenbergCaravel/TransportGuns/Infantry/ArtilleryCopernicus/GalileoReformation/Luther
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‘The new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th’earth, and no man’s wit Can well direct him where to look for it.
Tis all in peeces, all cohaerance gone;All just supply, and all relation:Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne, are things forgot,For everyman alone thinkes he hath gotTo be a Phoenix, and there can beeNone of that kinde, of which he is, but hee.
John Donne, 1611 (1572-1631)
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The great chain of being
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Is an “unchained” universe a
liberated universe
or a fragmented universe, cast adrift?
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“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.”
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
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Consider the poetic metaphor:
LAWS OF NATURE …
The universe becomes a courtroom, God the lawgiver and king/judge …
Natural Law and Revealed Law
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The 10 Spheres are gone …
The Great Chain is gone …
But order has returned:
Invisible and universal rules, principles, laws, patterns, standards, systems.
The Divine Right of Kings and popes is gone:The divinely sanctioned system has
come.
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1500 AD - 2000 AD
Modern World
1750 AD1500 AD 2000 AD
Postmodern World
1950 AD - ???
Medieval World
Print/Screen/InternetNew ScienceNew WeaponsNew TransportationNew EconomyNew Spirituality
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1500 AD - 2000 AD
Modern World
1750 AD1500 AD 2000 AD
Postmodern World
1950 AD - ???
Medieval World
Print/Screen/InternetNew ScienceNew WeaponsNew TransportationNew EconomyNew Spirituality
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Consider that we live in at least three worlds.
Pre-modern world
Non-modern world
Modern world
Emerging world
2007
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Themes of Postmodernity1. Conquest, Control, Progress … Conservation
2. Mechanistic/reductionist … holistic/systemic
3. Analytical … post-analytical
4. Secular/scientific … spiritual/scientific
5. Objective … Intersubjective
6. Critical … Post-critical
7. Organization … alliance, network
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Themes of Postmodernity8. Individualism … community, tradition, tribe
9. Protestant/polemical … Post-protestant
10. Consumerism … Sustainability
11. Print literacy … layered fluency
12. National … global/migratory
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Old
Paradigm/
Model
Early
Transition
Late
Transition
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Old
Paradigm/
Model
Early
Transition
Late
Transition
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Old
Paradigm/
Model
Early
Transition
Late
Transition
New Paradigm/
Model
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Old
Paradigm/
Model
Early
Transition
Late
Transition
New Paradigm/
Model
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Paradigm Shifts
Almost always the [people] who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new
paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they
change.Thomas S. Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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"I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighboring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?... here the foundations of physics have started moving; and ... this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.” Werner Heisenberg
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“It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere, upon which one could have built.”
Albert EinsteinOn his
paradigm shift
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“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography
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A Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Upon this age that never speaks its mindThis furtive age, this age endowed with power to wake the moon with footsteps,To fit an oar into the rowlocks of the wind and find what swims before his prowAnd what swirls behind,
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A Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Upon this gifted age in this dark hourRains from the sky a meteoric shower of facts.They lie unquestioned, uncombined.Wisdom enough to leach us of our ill is daily spunBut there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (from “Hunstman, What Quarry?”
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So … what’s next?
The answer is … not one response, but many creative and synergistic responses.
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So … what’s next?
The answer is …
What will you and I believe, become, and
create?
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