Sunday, September 10, 2006

A Newbiginian Revolution

We speak of the Copernican revolution as that change which challenged the prevailing European notion that the world was the center of the solar system, and suggested instead that the Sun was that around which the earth and other bodies orbit.

I believe that I am undergoing a Newbiginian Revolution which is challenging my prevailing notion that reason forms the center of our cognitive system, and contending instead that God is the center - without whom there is no reliable knowledge.

For an outstanding treatment of the Enlightenment, its effects on western society, and the church in particular, check out Leslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian.

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