{"id":549,"date":"2022-07-19T21:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T21:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/?p=549"},"modified":"2022-07-19T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T21:38:41","slug":"and-why-practice-a-new-form-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realisticliving.org\/New\/and-why-practice-a-new-form-of-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"And Why Practice a New Form of Christianity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people today find themselves \u201calumni\u201d from the Christian communities in which they were raised.\u00a0 Others still commune in some form of the vast heritage of Christianity, but are restless for something more profound and more relevant to the world in which we must live our lives.\u00a0 Still others find themselves skeptical about every religious understanding and practice that they have known.\u00a0 Christianity, like every other religion on the planet, is in a time of deep transition.<\/p>\n

For example \u201cangels\u201d and \u201cdevils\u201d need no longer be pictured as literal beings but as processes of Awe and temptations to unrealism that characterize the actual lives of every human being.\u00a0 Such a discovery is actually a rediscovery of what many Christians throughout the ages were actually referencing with such terms.\u00a0 The ancient language can be translated into the poetry of our own times.\u00a0 And the solitary and communal practices of this deep heritage can come alive again in ways that enrich our lives in the real world.<\/p>\n

For further exploration of these topics consider these two links to books fully discussed on this web site:<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 The Love of History and the Future of Christianity
\nToward a Manifesto for a Next Christianity<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

1994\u00a0 To Be or Not to Be a Christian
\nMeditations and Essays on Authentic Christian Community<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n