Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A radically different vision

The power of a human mind to think rationally is only developed in a tradition which itself depends on the experience of previous generations. This is obviously true of the vast edifice of modern science sustained by the scientific community. The definition of what is reasonable and what is not will be conditioned by the tradition within which the matter is being discussed. . .

It is no secret, indeed it has been affirmed from the beginning, that the gospel gives rise to a new plausibility structure, a radically different vision of things from those that shape all human cultures apart from the gospel. The Church, therefore, as the bearer of the gospel, inhabits a plausibility structure that is at variance with, and which calls in question, those that govern all human cultures without exception. (Gospel in a Pluralist Society p9)
The business of gospel entrepreneurship is to create ventures that embody this vision, and call into question the cultures around them.

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