" The other dominant school of Western writers advocates living lives of "free play". It believes that if we continually reinvent ourselves in the midst of our fluctuating social, psychological, and economic environments, we will be able to meet our immediate needs. In practical, if not theoretical Darwinian terms, they assume that nothing exists outside the moment. To meet the needs of each moment is the best one can hope for.
This has some truth in that we can and speak according to our context. Yet this concept of free play has lost any sense of a unifying force holding together the disparate elements of modern life. Proponents of this free play reject Dante's trinitarian view that, amid the diversity and fragmentation of our individual lives, a unity can emerge to give breadth, depth, and meaning to our different experiences.
Without a trinitarian God, most postmodern writers are left with little choice but to immerse themselves in the moment in an attempt to forget their very real need for transcendence. In their perpetual search for personal soul, they exacerbated the West's loss of its collective soul.
The Bible's impact on literature made it the West's source of cultural authority. A rejection of the Bible is resulting in moral and intellectual anarchy."
(excerpt from 'The Book That Made Your World" - pp 192-193 (c) 2011 Vishal Mangalwadi, Thomas Nelson, Nashville TN)
This has some truth in that we can and speak according to our context. Yet this concept of free play has lost any sense of a unifying force holding together the disparate elements of modern life. Proponents of this free play reject Dante's trinitarian view that, amid the diversity and fragmentation of our individual lives, a unity can emerge to give breadth, depth, and meaning to our different experiences.
Without a trinitarian God, most postmodern writers are left with little choice but to immerse themselves in the moment in an attempt to forget their very real need for transcendence. In their perpetual search for personal soul, they exacerbated the West's loss of its collective soul.
The Bible's impact on literature made it the West's source of cultural authority. A rejection of the Bible is resulting in moral and intellectual anarchy."
(excerpt from 'The Book That Made Your World" - pp 192-193 (c) 2011 Vishal Mangalwadi, Thomas Nelson, Nashville TN)