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”
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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.
Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Preview
I wrote my first college research paper on Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, and Christianity. I writing it July of 2020 and finished it in the early days of August of 2020. It has 24 pages, plus 6 works cited pages, amounting to over seven thousand words. Having shared it with a few of the people I respect and trust most, and having been encouraged by them to publish it, I have determined to do so here. It will be published on this blog in 8 parts, beginning March 14, 2021, and continuing until March 21, 2021.
Cultural Disunity and the Triune God–Works Cited
Short repudiation: Simply because I cite something does not mean I support that source. Simply because I quote someone, even in a positive way, does not necessarily mean I agree with that individual or group on other things; in fact, I may have disagreements with those I cite within the very documents I cite. IContinue reading “Cultural Disunity and the Triune God–Works Cited”
Standing Before God, This We Are and No More 