I'm Back

Alright, I just checked and it has been 10 days since my last post. So I will get to some unfinished business. Here are a couple of quotes from "Above all Earthly Pow'rs: Christ in a Postmodern World":
"...a materialistic scientist and an animist who believes that trees have souls comparable to his own will look at the same trees rather differently. The difference lies not in the trees, but in the interpretive framework in which they are understood."

"Clearly the Enlightenment promised far more than it was ever able to deliver: one way of understanding this is to think of it as a Christian heresy. What Christian faith had offered was retained while the Source from which that offer had been made was rejected. The prerogatives that had belonged to God did not simply disappear; now they reapppeared in human beings. The revelation he had given now reappeared in the form of natural reason, which would do what revelation had done but without the discomfort of requiring humanity to submit to the God from whom the revelation had come; the idea of salvation was retained but transformed into the drive for human perfectibility, at first achieved by moral striving and then, as we know it today, by psychological technique; grace became effort, the life of faith became the hope of personal growth; and eschatology became progress.... Thus was the Christian Trinity replaced by a substitute trinity of reason, nature, and progress."