Creation v Evolution. But they’re not really opposites at all, are they?
Creationism offers 'who' but not 'how'. Evolutionism offers 'how' but not 'who'.
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Saturday 25 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
Bridging the Bridge That We Burnt
Understanding, historically, at what point our paths divided feeds my desire to live appropriately amongst our Glocal neighbours.
Deepak Lal has recently scratched some of my proverbial itches. He writes (p45) " The Great Divergence of Western Europe from the other Eurasian civilisations occurred because of a change in cosmological and material beliefs, mediated by the Catholic Church … by Pope Gregory I in the sixth century on family matters (Goody 1983) and the second those by Gregory VII in the eleventh century on property and institutionally related issues (Berman 1983) … to put the west on a different economic trajectory than its Eurasian peers ".
Was organised Christian religion really the root of the individualism that separates the West from more communalist cultures?
Is the notion of exporting the Pursuit of Jesus and the kingdom of God across this divide, without exporting Western Individualism, an atavistic fantasy?
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Deepak Lal has recently scratched some of my proverbial itches. He writes (p45) " The Great Divergence of Western Europe from the other Eurasian civilisations occurred because of a change in cosmological and material beliefs, mediated by the Catholic Church … by Pope Gregory I in the sixth century on family matters (Goody 1983) and the second those by Gregory VII in the eleventh century on property and institutionally related issues (Berman 1983) … to put the west on a different economic trajectory than its Eurasian peers ".
Was organised Christian religion really the root of the individualism that separates the West from more communalist cultures?
Is the notion of exporting the Pursuit of Jesus and the kingdom of God across this divide, without exporting Western Individualism, an atavistic fantasy?
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