Scribbles

24.3.14

Moving from the permissible to the possible!

Grace – order & freedom, openness & diversity!

The theological virtue of fuzziness

Liberal – modest, generous & progressive; inclusive, dialectic & existential (empirical, rational & contextual)

Apostles of political correctness

Liberal orthodoxy

Certainty >> arrogance
Fear >> aggression

The Creator is also the destroyer,
The Redeemer is also the ruler,
And the Sustainer is also the reviver.

GOD creates,
Man innovates, repairs & develops…

Celtic Christianity & revivalist hymns

Liberal, secular & humanistic Christianity

Etiolation

Haulm

Limpid ~ luculent

Recondite ~ abstruse

Revision, reconstruction & emancipation

“Reaping the whirlwind”

Postmodern Neo-orthodoxy

Axiology

Liberal, progressive & constructive
Vs.
Orthodox, conservative & systematic

Reflective, imaginative & relevant faith
Existence, faith & values

Unitarianism

“In the love of truth, and in the spirit of Jesus, we unite for worship of God and the service of man.”

Internal authority – reason, conscience & intuition

Transcendentalism

Realism, historicism & pragmatism

Industrialisation, capitalism & globalisation

The discourse of experience & tradition

Liberal ~ reformist; Liberation ~ revolutionary
Not radical enough?

Fundamentalism, evangelicalism & confessionalism

Post-theistic religious/mystical naturalists

Relativity & relationality
Wholeness & flourishing