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A Review of “Global Humility”

I think this book sees the Bible primarily through a man-centric perspective, and does so under an attempt to be humble. This effort involves not having an arrogant ethnocentrism, or judgmental attitude (page 10). The core idea in the book is that reading the Bible (i.e. proper hermeneutics) involves putting on different “cultural lenses” toContinue reading “A Review of “Global Humility””

Atonement and the Satisfaction of God

Outline: When I started to write this, I had just finished a college quiz (and did fairly well at it if I do say so myself), and needed to do a test before I head out to my eight-hour work shift. Yes, the Atonement is something that a college going fast-food worker thinks about inContinue reading “Atonement and the Satisfaction of God”

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 8–Conclusion

Read Part 1-Introduction, and Part 2-Racism, Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality, and Part 3-The Influences of Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality, and Part 4-Societal Events, and Part 5-The Trinity Creating, and Part 6-Created in the Image of God, and Part 7-New Life, Identity, and Purpose. No longer are people who are reconciled toContinue reading “Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 8–Conclusion”

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 7–New Life, Identity, and Purpose

God graciously reconciles people to Himself and to each other through His Son, giving them a new life, identity, and a new pursuit in His Son. According to the Triune God, humanities problem of disunity ultimately comes down to individual people’s relationship with Him. “We were made for God—made to share intimately in His life and love—but Genesis 3 ends with Adam cut off from God, dying and driven out of His presence” (Scrivener 78). In Genesis 3, the representatives of the human race, the man who theologians call humanities’ first federal head, Adam (Evangelical Dictionary of Theology), adulterously rebelled against the God who loved them—which is what the Bible calls sin. And this historical event is why every human being has been and is born in alienation from God.

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 6–Created in the Image of God

God has responded to the disunity in American culture by creating every human being in His own image. According to the three Person God, “oneness is not sameness…” in a perfect world (Strachan, Reenchanting Humanity 207). Humans are created as “significantly different, but genuinely equal” (Mead 30), being made in the image of the Triune God.

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 5–The Trinity in Creating

God has not made humanity to be divided and hostile, rejoicing in their divisions under the guise of rejoicing in their diversity. God responds to the idea of racism and the reality of racial prejudice at the very foundation of the ideologies which propound them. God did not make many races; He made one united human race. And that one race was meant to rejoice, not in their own diversity, but in the superabundant glory of one God—a God who is overflowingly abundant in His creation.

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 4–Societal Events

Humanity can learn a lot from history about themselves, if they have the courage and wisdom to do so. For it teaches individuals about human nature, and therefore about their own nature and that of those they live with.

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 3–The Influences of Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality

In the last post we laid out the ideologies of Hegemony, Critical race theory, and intersectionality. Now we move to seeing the effect these ideologies have had in American culture specifically, in the understanding of ethnicity, in the area of politics, and in the realm of entertainment.

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 2–Racism, Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality

critical race theory paired with intersectionality, leads individuals to view themselves, “not as part of a whole, but as part of subgroups—as part of subgroups who, in some way, shape, fashion or form, are being oppressed by the hegemonic power that rules and governs our culture” (Baucham, Cultural Marxism), which goes far beyond considerations of race. This is the worldview that has enveloped American culture and is at the center of the divide seen in the American political sphere and in group-based divisions.

Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 1–Introduction

Throughout history, humanity has been united and divided by many various things and for many various causes. American culture in the year 2020 is no different in this respect … Nothing appears competent to unify a relationally broken humanity.