Early on Monday morning I got in late to a Tony Campolo seminar called, Christianity: Modern and Postmodern. I was excited about it because I knew it would have nothing to do with the title. They could have called it Tony Campolo washes dishes while wearing a black turtleneck and just as many people would have been there. Here’s what I wrote:
- Freud: individualism vs. Bible: community
- Skinner: past orientation vs. Bible: faith, hope, future
- new names: because the future determines who we are more than the past
- the clock as a death denial system
- book: “The Denial of Death” read the Wiki too
- Freud shifted from the suppression of libido to the suppression of the fear of death as he aged
- Autonomy: Being and Nothingness by Sarte
- Who you are is determined by your choice of who/what you are committed to. You become what you serve.
- knowing who you are will make you a leader. You know this by knowing what you are committed to.
- Relativity: values become relative, but this falls apart in practice because of a universal agreement towards justice; anthropology reveals the erro of relativity.
- quoting Kant, “Transcendental categories of our perception.”
- Postmodernism: environmentalism can be motivated by Ps. 148 because creation is worshipping
- Self-Acalization: Campolo suggested that gospel oriented youth pastors will end up fighting parents who believe they have a “lasting” right to define their kids’ identity (rather than the kids’ future defining it).
- Clement of Alexandria: Jesus made yokes that were outstanding and light and easy.
- How do we hold a sacredness to the environment without becoming New Age? Heresy comes from neglected truth
- Genesis 1: Harvey Cox, it establishes God as the creator of all the things people worship falsely
- It wasn’t until Noah that God gave permission to kill animals and eat. I haven’t looked this up though.
- Edison: 4,000 failed experiments to develop the light bulb. How does this apply to the emerging church?
- What does this rock teach you about Jesus?
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