Copernicus (1473-1543) upset two worldviews:
the Earth was not fixed in place but rotated
and the Sun was the center of the cosmos not Earth
Duns Scotus, Franciscan theologian, upset another two:
“Our predestination to glory precedes by nature
our tendency to sin” – we are original blessings
not original sinners – and “The goal of perfect love
is the perfection of love, therefore Christ
would have come to Earth even if there was no sin
and therefore no need of redemption”
Meister Eckhart upset a fifth worldview:
God is not “out there,” but rather
“The soul is the deepest/truest part of being human
and the place where we are united with God
who creates us in every moment”
the spiritual and physical are united –
the Father/Son/Holy Spirit are in our heads/hearts/guts
Jacques Ellul’s theology upset both the capitalist and Marxist
world-views: “Christian social action must put the emphasis
on individual humans not the collective masses
nor on the technological means of production –
a human being is not a cog in mass machinery
nor a tool to be used by the professional politician”
another upset of the modern worldview: sex is healthy not “dirty”
“Evolution continues through humans only to the extent
that we are conscious of the integral wholeness of love
which includes healthy sexuality. In other words
healthy sexuality is a key to evolution’s progress”
– Teilhard de Chardin
but there is a major problem with males and females:
we can see our shadow and the shadow of others
much more easily in our own sex than in the opposite sex
we overlook the shadow of the opposite sex
which means that men see their own shadow
in other men, fight them, and create wars
and women are jealous of other women
overlook the flaws of men
and make seriously bad choices
in whom they fall in love with and marry.
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