This term, "re-enchantment" is starting to enter the lexicon of right wing discussion. We should resist this. I am not sure I have a better one, but this label works for the machine, not against it.
We will believe anything if it allows us to avoid the God who says we are broken sinners in need of a Savior. But, we are restless until we find our rest in Him.
Unfortunate there does not seem to be a word for re-Divinization, or opening our eyes once again to the Wellspring of creation that sustains us.
Even in mundane things people will ascribe to technology what is rightly ascribed to God. When a series of coincidences (if such things even exist) lead to my adopting a dog from a new novice monk is it appropriate to say, "wow, crazy things happen thanks to social media" or "God meant this to happen?" The former is what we are all socially expected to do.
Yes. We have all learned these habits. This is what I mean when I say “functional materialism.” We have learned the habits of thought and speech which sends the message, matter is all there is.
We will believe anything if it allows us to avoid the God who says we are broken sinners in need of a Savior. But, we are restless until we find our rest in Him.
Yeah. We have an almost perverse resistance to grace.
Unfortunate there does not seem to be a word for re-Divinization, or opening our eyes once again to the Wellspring of creation that sustains us.
Even in mundane things people will ascribe to technology what is rightly ascribed to God. When a series of coincidences (if such things even exist) lead to my adopting a dog from a new novice monk is it appropriate to say, "wow, crazy things happen thanks to social media" or "God meant this to happen?" The former is what we are all socially expected to do.
Yes. We have all learned these habits. This is what I mean when I say “functional materialism.” We have learned the habits of thought and speech which sends the message, matter is all there is.
I found great comfort whilst reading this essay, the answer lies within us and we all have the capacity to reach for that answer.
We have been given a map that deliberately leads us along the wrong path.
Superb content thanks.
Thanks!