[#10 TIA] The Quiet Return of Christianity w/ Justin Brierley
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- Justin Brierley explores how new dialogues, cultural shifts and thinkers like Jordan Peterson are shaping conversations about God, meaning and morality.
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Join Justin Brierley, author and former host of Unbelievable?, as he explores why New Atheism is fading and discusses the rise of new ideas in the search for truth. Reflecting on the influence of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and figures like Jordan Peterson, Brierley examines the future of faith, atheism, and spirituality in today’s world. Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion on one of the most pressing cultural debates of our time!"
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All I think of is JESUS Christ's Words in John 12:32. This shift in faith is GOD drawing all men to Himself and ensuring His Words in Matthew 16:18. Remember His Words in Luke 21:33. This is Gospel alive! Blessed be our Good GOD, Who still dwells among us, fulfilling His Word and giving us hope!🙏
If Christianity gets abandoned, then something else will filll that gap. That something else will be Islam, with diseasterous consciquences. We need the return of Knight Templar mentality, as the wimpy co-exist chritianity won't be enough.
It will not be abandoned. Have Faith, it is difficult in these times but God is in charge and when He instituted His Church ,He said that « the gates of hell will not overcome His Church. »
True. I find it interesting how the crusades succeeded then just faded in British history as time passed. An important learning must have been missed. Meanwhile, British society is fast overwhelmed, flooded by non-Christian values Christian churches are EMPTY; worst, MOSQUES mushroomed in manifold. The UK government traded its faith for material/ physical resources in non-Christian countries.
First there was a beginning now there is an image.
That image is a mathematical pattern that has a beginning and ending as well as being simultaneously infinite and finite.
Sufficient to the description is the reality.
Objective doing finite reason gifts and subjective infinite faith (heart) need of being are inseparable and qualitatively equal the keeping of which, which is trinitarian God, is in uncertainty of belief in present moment real presence.
Unfortunately, my perception is not that we are seeing a "quiet return to Christianity", but a noisy return to Christian fundamentalism. 'Belief in God' (even Muslims have that capacity!) is not the same thing as believing in the Creator of All, who chose, and accompanied,a specific People, through their history, bound Himself to them through covenant, and fulfilled their messianic expectation around two thousand years ago. The form of 'Churchianity' which is currently loud on TH-cam appears to wish to ignore all of the biblical scholarship which has been carried out over the past one-and-a-half centuries: culminating in the publication of 'The Myth of God Incarnate', back in the 1970s. Fortunately, there is a sub-discipline in Theol.ogy we call Christology (Jewish scholars tend to refer to 'Jesus Studies'); and this discipline has gone a long way to 'rescuing' the inspirational young, male, fully-human, Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, from the post-resurrection thinking of the Church. To be a mature Christian, we have to place RESURRECTION before INCARNATION. Jesus had disciples and other followers, all Jews. None of them was aware - at the time - that they were in the company of the Second Person of the Trinity. They were sharing the life and mission of a young male Jew. Jumping 'The Christological Chasm' from being with a young male Jew, to the realisation that he is the fulfilment of Israel's messianic expectations, took the resurrection, and copious searches of their scriptures (probably the Septuagint) to realise that 'The Great Christological Titles' could be applied to Jesus of Nazareth. THAT was, and remains, FAITH. We need to re-discover our roots within the faith of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob: for that is the God Jesus worshipped: and whom the primitive Church came to recognise him as embodying. The earliest New Testament writings (the genuine letters of Paul) know nothing of a 'virgin birth', nor an 'empty tomb'; but they know plenty about the resurrection. Similarly, the earliest Gospel begins, not with the 'Nativity', but with the baptism of Jesus. Why might this be? You ask where the grounding for human rights lies. In her excellent recent book, 'THE BUILDER'S STONE' Melanie Phillips rightly traces this process back to our 'parent' faith, the faith of Jesus: Judaism. The author of the Elohistic account of Creation, of man being "in the image of God", provides the initial 'value' which attaches to us all. But this does not mean being 'gentle' toward those who would violate this principle: "viper's brood" and "whited sepulchres" were some of the colourful descriptions, remebered as having been used by Jesus, on the sanctimonious of his day. 'Christian fundamentalists' (I prefer the term scriptural literalists) have used our scriptures to perpetuate 'crationist' modes of thinking in our schools (even post-Darwin), thjey still teach that we are 'falledn', rather than a 'work-in-progress', they used to teach the submission of women, and the correctness of slavery, provided both Enslaver and Enslaved were "in Christ". They also used to use scripture to justify racism. The Church has a lot of apologisiung to do, before it is able to set itself up as providing a 'moral compass' for society.
I do like Justin. He's always been fair and ecumenical in his approach. Probably stems from the reality that England/UK is probably the most secular of western states. We have to start at a lower base in the re-evangelisation. It can get quite hostile out there when talk of God/Jesus gets mentioned.
Hi. I agree with what you say about Justin but I am not sure what you mean about a "lower base".
I think that part of that lower base movement ought to mean a re-evaluation of what, precisely, is the "good news".
I worry that too many Christian (both Catholic and Protestant) apologists are simply too smug. They preach the same so-called "good news" that was preached during the Reformation, heavy laden with atonement theology, and other metaphors that hardly make sense to large slices of contemporary humanity.
They denounce a strawman version of "liberal" Christianity and refuse to deeply consider that what they are preaching might be quite a distance removed from 1st century Christianity and in fact, a turn off for many well meaning enquirers.
I believe mainstream Christian apologetics, both in its Protestant and Catholic form, needs to move "slightly" left, (ie somewhat more like Richard Rohr, than like +Barron or William Lane Craig) if we are to have a re-conversion of Europe and Nort America. We have to retreat a little from creeping infallibility in Catholicism and "sola scriptura" in Protestantism. It does not have to be a massive retreat, but I fear that nothing will happen if we don't give a little....
" Atheism facilitates islam "
- Dominic Tarczyniski
Christianity in Britain was lost with the establishment of the anglican church of England which pledges loyalty to the monarchy, not God. This loss is a precursor to multiculturalism and the easy domination of liberalism (thanks to Russia) and institutionalization of Islam in the UK the people of which are easy to be recruited to that faith as the Mr. Brierley clearly stated it that many Brits has a vacuum within themselves as individuals and as a nation which Islam succeeded to fill up. Sorry but Islam is successful on this and too late for leaders to counteract the wave.
A lot of Christianity was lost in Britain through the survivors of the Great War in the first place, and those men had their belief tested again a few year later, through the Depression and then the 2nd World War.
As a result, the Anglican Church feminised itself, because the remaining congregation were ladies and their children.
Hence the Church has not related to men for many years, and so the dominoes start to tumble, as the authority of the Church is undermined.
You don’t think that Joy is part of the Christian make up!
Excuse me, but I’m sure you are aware of the featured list of the flavours of the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians.
To that end everyone needs to be aware as to how the fruit matured. I was aware of the passage for 30 years until I finally realised at the age of 60 that I had actually matured, and the whole set was resident in my soul, as the spirit had taken over. I had struggled over and over with one or two, and at brief moments 3.
I can understand as to how difficult that would be to someone like Jordan, who has had to always rationalise everything in his own mentality.
There are no sky fairies.
No, only the Almighty God.
Christ is the King of kings
Yea. Glad you now know, but we have Christ the almighty God
Ok then, have fun with Allah when Islam takes over.
Now that you are abandoning children's stories, time to get down to the serious stuff, fit only for the bravest of grown-ups. And that is Christianity!