“Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.” WorldMeanSelfChristianCultureNamesChristianityMorningGraceModernBedWake UpTablesForgottenConservativeAliensWakingIndividualismBiblicalSheetsModernityProtestantsTagDiningResidentsScientismRelativismBanquetsAssertiveModern CultureReductionismDeterioratingCultural Relativism Author:Thomas Oden
“A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.” ArtPhilosophyTogetherImaginationPiecesPureArt IsAnalysisRainbowClicheAnalyzingSynthesisReductionism Book:The Ascent of Man Source: The Ascent of Man