O.G. Rose | Belonging Again (Part 48) by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
As we begin to approach the end of our essay, I think it would be appropriate to restate our main question: "How do we belong again?" Where might we "rest?" Must we all become like the Child who sat in Christ's lap?
To incorporate thinking from How (Not) to Be Secular by James K.A. Smith, we live in an age of 'contested meaning,' which is to say our world is a 'cross-pressured, haunted world,' versus one 'sanitized of faith and transcendence, flattened to the empirical.' 'The difference between our modern, 'secular' age and past ages is not necessarily the catalogue of available beliefs but rather the default assumptions about what is believable.'³ What has changed is 'what [is] taken for granted,' and unlike in the past, today 'religious belief or belief in God is understood to be one option among others, and thus contestable.' 'It's as if the cathedrals are still standing, but their footings have been eroded'...
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As we begin to approach the end of our essay, I think it would be appropriate to restate our main question: "How do we belong again?" Where might we "rest?" Must we all become like the Child who sat in Christ's lap?
To incorporate thinking from How (Not) to Be Secular by James K.A. Smith, we live in an age of 'contested meaning,' which is to say our world is a 'cross-pressured, haunted world,' versus one 'sanitized of faith and transcendence, flattened to the empirical.' 'The difference between our modern, 'secular' age and past ages is not necessarily the catalogue of available beliefs but rather the default assumptions about what is believable.'³ What has changed is 'what [is] taken for granted,' and unlike in the past, today 'religious belief or belief in God is understood to be one option among others, and thus contestable.' 'It's as if the cathedrals are still standing, but their footings have been eroded'...
Purchase "Belonging Again" today:
amazon.com/Belonging-Again-Explanation-Part-I-ebook/dp/B0C4M1F9WX?ref_=ast_author_dp
For the rest of the piece, please visit:
medium.com/@o-g-rose-writing/list/belonging-again-by-og-rose-042a86c89dd9
For more by O.G. Rose, visit:
og-rose.com
