Evangelical Evolutionary Religious Naturalism

Evangelical Evolutionary Religious Naturalism

Michael Dowd has a blog post that reworks some fundamental tenets of Evangelicalism to be more in keeping with his own naturalistic and evolutionary faith. The whole thing is worth reading (and so I encourage you to click through to read it), but here are the key elements of his transformed creed:

Reality is my God, evidence is my scripture, and integrity is my religion. I trust life. I trust time. I trust the truth.

I know that Integrity is the key to joy and that I cannot walk this path alone; I need others. Living โ€œin Christโ€, with no resentments, no secrets, or unfinished business, I know the peace that passes all understanding and can embrace my mortality andย honor death as no less sacred than life.

Lasting freedom and happiness will elude me unless I makeย right relationship to Reality/God my highest commitment, and keep choosing Big Integrity as my compass one day at a time.

How can I not express love and compassion, share the good news, and do everything in my power to ensure a thriving future for planet Earth and for the millions of species that constitute my larger family? What greater calling could there be? What more honorable legacy could I leave?

I would be very interested to hear from more traditional Evangelicals, progressives and panentheists, as well as atheists, to find out whether a creed of this sort is one that pretty much anyone in any of these categories could affirm, or whether there are elements that you find problematic. Iโ€™m also curious whether the very possibility of a creed that transcends one particular religious viewpoint would be considered a good thing or a bad thing by both adherents to and detractors from religion alike.

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