Beyond Relativism and Fundamentalism

Beyond Relativism and Fundamentalism December 8, 2009

This won’t be very long. I just thought that it needed to be said:

There is a here-and-now that is beyond our control, more than what we decide or will for there to be—infinitely more. Since the here-and-now is always beyond our grasp, we can never have pure knowledge or certainty of the here-and-now. In both cases, there is always more.

Everything is here-and-now and to-come. Here-and-now, because regardless of our whim, God is with us, in temporality. To-come, because God is always more than the here-and-now, more than time and space, always beyond it all.

For renewal, we will need to let go of relativism and fundamentalism and return to God. This begins by letting relativism and fundamentalism die a quick death as a distracting dualism—and since we made them up, we might have to kill them both.


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