No. I am not presumptuous enough to think I know the future of Christianity. But, these are two guys I respect and I do think that Integral Theory could prove useful to contemporary Christianity. Looks interesting...
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I really can't agree with some of the premise they start from.
Isn't Christianity rooted in something historical many years before (i.e. the Jews)? Its not like Christ spoke out of a vacuum and we only have His words, or rather a record of His words after He died and rose, to try to figure out what He meant.
Steve,
I watched the video again and I'm not sure what your saying. Are you disagreeing that we don't have any actual records from when Jesus was alive? I think we only do have records of his words after he "died and rose" according to the dates of the NT writings.
You may want to check out where these people are coming from. The integral theorists might say that Christianity both "transcended and included" Judaism, so historical facts would not be precluded. Any proper interpretation would have to include Judaism, but does not rule out deeper meanings, and further interpretation, and different practices of the text. It's taken me a while to understand their jargon. So, that's my limited take on it...
Thanks Macyn, Feel free to chime in anytime....
If I get time later I may listen to the clip again. And, as you mentioned, it is only a part of the whole and so I may have gotten a bit of a partial look at it.
I do think that not having actual copies of Jesus' words written down as he spoke them is a very overrated issue. Enough copies found in different places to substanciate a reasonable level of hisorical validity to what we have especially when compare to other historical documents that have been generally accepted.
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