The Once and Future Parish: book talk with author Alison Milbank and Rupert Sheldrake
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- Alison Milbank discusses her new book with Rupert Sheldrake, covering the current threats to the parish system in England and its potential for spiritual revival. Alison first summarizes the main themes of her book, and then she and Rupert explore a variety of ways in which parish churches and communities could be revitalized.
Alison Milbank is a Professor of Theology and Nottingham University and Canon Theologian at Southwell Cathedral. She is a leading figure in the Save The Parish movement.
www.savetheparish.com
Dr Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and From 2005 to 2010 was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, Cambridge.
www.sheldrake.org
Hello , thank you for your thoughtful presentation. Im a priest and I am a graduate of the Bayes Business School, so I understand the managerial approach BUT and I have been forever puzzled how anyone can think that employing managerial models can assist the Church to work along side the Holy Spirit. I do not think it likely that God is calling the Church to " success" or " efficacy". Thank you again.
Yup. The ancient machine of the Old Cosmovision is breaking down and grinding to a halt. Hallelujah! Perhaps afterwards True spiritual insight and inspiration can take hold in new and fertile ground. The Universal truths will survive this collapse. The Bureaucratic mechanism will not.
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I'm a white Englishman who became interesed in Hinduism and I live in India as much as I can- currently in Rajasthan. The spiritual tradition here of course has no proselytization and encourages people to find fulfilment in their own traditions, which is Rupert's case despite his Indian years, all fine. However Christianity is at the centre of the problems of current alienation and poor cultural values- when you say '...our traditions' they're really not ours in the least- they're from Israel for goodness sake and imposed on pre-Christian spiritualites which indeed have links with Indian dharmic religions. All you say about community is fine and urgently needed but with your central image some virgin guy being tortured to death alongside a virginity goddess, saying horrific suffering is good and sex and its maturity of mind is bad, alongside sets of fixed rules that don't cover for life's diversity, you're going to contine to be part of the problems and not their solution. Christianity is obviously part of a control system to keep people down and inverting common sense- and benefitting an establishment. Best wishes; Sean
❤ You are absolutely correct in your thoughts.
Am I missing something or was England not a Christian country for about the past 1600 years? At what point does the thing putatively "imposed" from without become a native tradition? Simply never, you seem to be suggesting. And sorry but I find this idea that the "links" (not elucidated) between "pre-Christian spiritualities" (quite a phrase) in England (presumably those extant in ~400 AD or earlier) offer some meaningful continuity now to a "white Englishman" entering Hinduism...farfetched. Why not be straightforward and just say you don't like Christianity and you are choosing Indian traditions instead? The Anglo-Saxons of the 5th century certainly would not have pretended they were recovering some ancient authenticity; I expect they would have told you they were choosing Jesus Christ.
@@dgjudy Hi. I'll have to disagree with you; sure 1600 years is a long time but paganism and other movements to recover indigenous spirituality would also disagree, while features of Christianity, particularly its high principle and lists of abstract rules, are not expressions of our more pragmatic culture. New spiritual movements have been doing well across Europe for many decades now even while north America holds on to Christianity in its old fashioned ways. Paganism and such systems are dharmic or theosophical in common with Indian religions, as based on personal experience and personal paths, not given scripture and not a preistly hierarchy for all, benefitting from the deference and refusal to think for oneself. You don't need a book or Jesus Christ to tell you right from wrong and if you do you're not acting under the inherent moral impulse a human being is expected to have. Best wishes.
Hola, por favor subtitulos en español. Gracias, saludos de Argentina
Active los CC (subtítulos automaticos) con traducción autogenerada al español. Funciona muy bien en este video
The Parish Church is an important rallying point, most notably in rural areas a connection to it's history.
History however should but is not anymore a great teacher. A great disapointment is the belief in the cult
of AGW and the nonesense of Net Zero. We almost seem to be heading in a direction where we burn the
witch again. Here is a current headline "The British countryside is a “racist colonial” white space, wildlife charities have claimed.
Wildlife and Countryside Link, a charity umbrella group whose members include the RSPCA, WWF and National Trust, made the claim in evidence provided to Parliament on racism and its influence on the natural world". As a Parish Councillor I'm agast at the arrival amongst Councillors, people who rail against farmers and tradition. Be very careful of what you invite in. By the way The CofE is worth about £9 Billion...
Christopher Hitchens made one or two interesting point's on this topic i believe