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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
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