In 1937, Aktiengesetz (Stock Corporation Act, the Nazi Shareholder Act, or the German Corporation Act) was passed. In the name of the Volk (the people, specifically those who shared the political ideology of Nazism), cooperate interests were placed secondarily to the perceived interests of the Volk.[1] Owners, shareholders, and their profits, were put in subservienceContinue reading “The Vague Collective and the Singularity”
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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 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.