Title: Re: Modernists vs Fundamentalists
Mike, I am
new enough on FW to be unfamiliar with both your work and your statement about
the Greens and Sustainable Development being the latest manifestation of the
Lockeian Synthesis.
Would you
mind briefly elaborating on that a bit for me?
Karen
Mike wrote: Ray,
In the West the
conception of the Creator you present is known as Panentheism - meaning God
present in everything. It is not the same as Pantheism, which means a god
in every thing.
You may recall from my book that this has been the creed of Christian heretics
throughout history - the Gnostics, the Albigensians, the Cathars, the Boehmists
and the Anabaptists. You may also recall from the book that the
Anabaptist ideas have resurfaced regularly in Modern Times (since the 17th
century) in radical Christian groups to be coopted by elites to form the kernel
of successive rejiggings of the Modern Paradigm. Indeed the Lockeian
Synthesis was a blending of Anabaptist thought from the radicals of the English
Revolution with the needs of a landed elite to retain power. The Greens
and Sustainable Development are the latest manifestation of this phenomenon.
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