LHC is like claiming to Know reality through a pinhole, which is an illustration I use in this respect wrt Scientism, and to a degree Science
Thanks for this Sam
I see LHC pretty much everywhere I look, but perhaps that’s LHC :)
Wrt faith, it’s the ‘I’ve got it!’ which solidifies the Livingness of faith into dead propositions and prevents any journey. ‘Here I stand!’ to The Living One’s ‘follow me’ :)
Also toxic congregations!
And the increasing dependence of the CofE and other churches on statistics, programs, line managers (straight line managers of course :) )
It’s interesting John Mark Comer, reflecting on how he saw in churches the dynamic of preventing spiritual growth by giving people jobs in the church. I see this as a move from the upwards gaze which ever draws us ‘deeper’ :) into life, to the downwards concentration on ‘managing things’. As a fellow reader of McG I’m sure you’ll get the hemispheric resonance :)
(I’m currently preparing for Sabbatical and an extended time of developing my own theses re McG’s work and Christian faith
Good read, thank you. I’ve forever been flummoxed by people who attempt to construct the world by trying to fit pieces together verses seeing how the pieces fit into the whole. I wonder if this also relates to the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian views. I also wonder if there is a correspondence to the nominalism/ realism outlook.
Sam, very useful set of notes for me. McGilchrist and commentators cover interesting ground re Left Hemisphere capture. The 'hall of mirrors' is real enough down to the personal level. Something for discussion perhaps in the same frame, one that has bothered me, is 'the Faustian Bargain'. I might add as a footnote, with no disrespect to Enid Blyton, that many attempts at 'scientific' explanation of the natural world and its motives might be termed 'Noddy'. Anthropomorphic examples abound among attempted 'mechanistic', 'deterministic' and other analogies. It's a long time ago now when I got involved with the difficult task of actually using scientific methods to get a grasp of some matters of practical importance, which always raised more questions.
Interesting point about jobs in the church- lock down in the left brain
LHC is like claiming to Know reality through a pinhole, which is an illustration I use in this respect wrt Scientism, and to a degree Science
Thanks for this Sam
I see LHC pretty much everywhere I look, but perhaps that’s LHC :)
Wrt faith, it’s the ‘I’ve got it!’ which solidifies the Livingness of faith into dead propositions and prevents any journey. ‘Here I stand!’ to The Living One’s ‘follow me’ :)
Also toxic congregations!
And the increasing dependence of the CofE and other churches on statistics, programs, line managers (straight line managers of course :) )
It’s interesting John Mark Comer, reflecting on how he saw in churches the dynamic of preventing spiritual growth by giving people jobs in the church. I see this as a move from the upwards gaze which ever draws us ‘deeper’ :) into life, to the downwards concentration on ‘managing things’. As a fellow reader of McG I’m sure you’ll get the hemispheric resonance :)
(I’m currently preparing for Sabbatical and an extended time of developing my own theses re McG’s work and Christian faith
Kind regards
Good read, thank you. I’ve forever been flummoxed by people who attempt to construct the world by trying to fit pieces together verses seeing how the pieces fit into the whole. I wonder if this also relates to the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian views. I also wonder if there is a correspondence to the nominalism/ realism outlook.
Sam, very useful set of notes for me. McGilchrist and commentators cover interesting ground re Left Hemisphere capture. The 'hall of mirrors' is real enough down to the personal level. Something for discussion perhaps in the same frame, one that has bothered me, is 'the Faustian Bargain'. I might add as a footnote, with no disrespect to Enid Blyton, that many attempts at 'scientific' explanation of the natural world and its motives might be termed 'Noddy'. Anthropomorphic examples abound among attempted 'mechanistic', 'deterministic' and other analogies. It's a long time ago now when I got involved with the difficult task of actually using scientific methods to get a grasp of some matters of practical importance, which always raised more questions.