A Persistent Irrationality
Internet Monk hosts an article, "A Persistent Irrationality," by Eric Rigney. I'm very interested in Rigney's main point; that Christianity embraces and encourages the application of reason to faith and the rejection of superstition.
Instead of his "soverign God who controls everything" I would talk about a God who creates a universe of physical law and respects freedom within it; where Rigney says the Bible has "a specific plan," I find a specific purpose. These are significant differences, but don't diminish my consonance with Rigney's main idea. It seems to me that Jesus wanted to free people from arbitrary, irrational, superstitious religiosity*; that's part of the good news! -h
*Let me affirm that Jewish law is often a wonderful, genuine expression of faith. Like all practices, including Christianity, the mode of expression is in constant danger of being mistaken for its inspiration.
Instead of his "soverign God who controls everything" I would talk about a God who creates a universe of physical law and respects freedom within it; where Rigney says the Bible has "a specific plan," I find a specific purpose. These are significant differences, but don't diminish my consonance with Rigney's main idea. It seems to me that Jesus wanted to free people from arbitrary, irrational, superstitious religiosity*; that's part of the good news! -h
*Let me affirm that Jewish law is often a wonderful, genuine expression of faith. Like all practices, including Christianity, the mode of expression is in constant danger of being mistaken for its inspiration.
A Persistent Irrationality posted by St. Peter's UCC at Monday, October 02, 2006
1 Comments:
Nice post. Agree with you about purpose being a better word than plan. I think that it is accurate to say that God's purpose is for us to be like Jesus. It is also accurate to say that he wants our hearts fully engaged in the plans to accomplish that purpose.
Blessings, Bob
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