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Progressive Christians have a deep belief in the centrality of the instruction to "love one another" John Throughout the 20th century, a strand of progressive or liberal Christian thought outlined the values of a 'good society '. Making Jesus into our own image is a temptation we all face. The holiness-justice-love stool is more carefully balanced than the single principle of the Golden Rule, and infinitely less cumbersome than the multi-rule approaches we looked at previously. We can expect to face a number of situations where the context challenges us to change our practices. It would be much more effective if we could depend on ingrained character traits or virtues to lead us instinctively to right decisions and actions. Wayne smiles ruefully at the possibility.
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Cancel Forgot your password? English View all editions and formats. User lists Similar Items. Depicting the God who exists beyond all we know, the Scripture writers describe the divine throne as "high and lofty," the name of the LORD as existing above all names.
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Yet even metaphors can be misleading when they cease to point beyond themselves. Though the Scriptures use the language and imagery of loftiness, they also attest that God's existence is far more than something "above" us. Author Steven Chase notes the danger in seeing God primarily above and our pilgrimage simply in terms of ascent.
He writes, "[T]o construe the spiritual journey exclusively as a path from "below" to "above" tends to create chasms—often unbridgeable—between body and soul, the beginner and the adept, the active and the contemplative life, and the powerless and the powerful.
In the minds of many Christians, a chasm likewise exists between the kingdom of heaven and the world in which we now live. The kingdom of heaven is seen as the place we are journeying toward , the better country the writer of Hebrews describes. In contrast, our place on earth is seen as temporary; like Abraham, we are merely passing through.
As a result, chasms stand between kingdom and earth, today and tomorrow, the physical and the spiritual. Whether intentionally or otherwise, the earth becomes something fleeting and irrelevant—one more commodity here for our use, like shampoo bottles in hotel bathrooms—while Christ is away preparing our permanent rooms. When the Christian pilgrimage is seen an ascent to another world, whether articulated or subconscious, this world soon becomes superfluous and God a distant caretaker.
This chasm not only belies a posture irresponsible for those called to love their neighbors and cultivate their surroundings, it betrays the identity and decree of a good creator, and negates the words of our most sacred prayer.
What does it mean that we pray God's kingdom come, God's will be done, on earth as it is in heaven? Among the speakers were E. According to Archbishop Wynn Wagner of the Old Catholic Church , holding to the ideals of progressive Christianity sets the movement apart from traditional Christianity. Inclusiveness and acceptance is the basic posture of progressive Christianity. Within the Seventh-day Adventist Church , the liberal wing describe themselves as "progressive Adventists".
They disagree with some of the traditional teachings of the church. While most are still of evangelical persuasion, a minority are liberal Christians.
As Bruce Sanguin writes, "It's time for the Christian church to get with a cosmological program We now know, for instance, that we live in an evolving or evolutionary universe. Evolution is the way that the Holy creates in space and in time, in every sphere: This new cosmology simply cannot be contained by old models and images of God, or by old ways of being the church.
Central to this recovery of awe in the cosmos is the epic of evolution , the billion-year history of the universe. Wilson , Brian Swimme , Eric Chaisson , Ursula Goodenough and others initiated this story which has been perpetuated with a religion component by some liberal theologians Gordon D. Kaufman , Jerome A. Stone , Michael Dowd , etc.
Evolutionary evangelist and progressive minister Michael Dowd uses the term Epic of Evolution or Great Story to help construct his viewpoint of evolution theology. His position is that science and religious faith are not mutually exclusive a form of religious naturalism. Evolution is viewed as a religious spiritual process that is not meaningless blind chance.