The Shadow of the Creator
Good post Jonathan. I have yet to read Florida's work, though it is on my Amazon "Wishlist". And it is certainly pertinent, especially when we consider redemption not as an individualistic removal of a soul from a contaminated creation but instead consider redemption as the comprehensive re-creation of rhe entire contaminated creation beginning with the soul. It is redemption couched in creation ... or perhaps more precisely it is redemption as the crowning melody of the eschatological creation story.
How do we begin to train this generation of the church to live this? I guess that it must begin with teaching God's people to cherish the dignity of things created by God through ordinary human means (I'm not talking about teaching people to appreciate trees and mountains and stars, but teaching them to see the creative hand of God in things like literature, theatre, music, art, architecture, industry, economy, technology ... all of the "ordinary" stuff of life that still seems to stir the heart towards a deeper longing for the ultimate Creator whose shadow lurks in all of these things). I suppose it's essentially helping people see that God's redemption can not contained in the things of religion. That redemption is at least as comprehensive as the effects of sin (who was it that said that? ... insert proper citation here)
How do we begin to train this generation of the church to live this? I guess that it must begin with teaching God's people to cherish the dignity of things created by God through ordinary human means (I'm not talking about teaching people to appreciate trees and mountains and stars, but teaching them to see the creative hand of God in things like literature, theatre, music, art, architecture, industry, economy, technology ... all of the "ordinary" stuff of life that still seems to stir the heart towards a deeper longing for the ultimate Creator whose shadow lurks in all of these things). I suppose it's essentially helping people see that God's redemption can not contained in the things of religion. That redemption is at least as comprehensive as the effects of sin (who was it that said that? ... insert proper citation here)
posted by Abe @ 12:16 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:45 PM,
Jonathan Dodson said…
Welcome bro. Good to have you.
To sum you up in Kuyper's vision-theological integration-which is indeed an important and basic approach to dealing with the problems and pluses created by teh creative class.
I wonder if educating the creative class on thier status is perhaps even more basic and necessary. Most people in this class have no idea what an impact they are having, positively and negatively, upon the cities in which they work. From there, we can then inquire if there should be something done about it. This would lead to bigger, theological answers that you suggest. But i think the starting point, with the creative class, needs to be more basic.
Post a Comment
<< Home