There have been key times in history. What now?
Constantine’s conversion, Augustine, the Investiture
controversy, various Reformation…what now?
Let’s take a look a 3-decker world.
In Church we have S. America going Protestant faster than
Europe during the Reformation, we have ‘Jesus in Beijing’, we have Africe from
10% Christian in 1900 to 46% @2000, we have a million baptized with ‘Contagious
Disciple Making’, we have Islamic Republics, etc.
In Land we have fewer dying in war, but the possibility of
nuclear war. We have forms of war we don’t even recognize, but surely the end
of Westphalia in 4th generation war…5th etc., we have the
failure of the nation state (Creveld), tremendous debt, etc.
In Culture we have the Spirit of exnihilation leaving the
Eccles building, blockchain/Bitcoin, the internet, and the like (see ‘General
Purpose Technologies’ on Wikipedia), we have incivility and various divisions,
decentralization vs. centralization (administrative law, per Berman) and MORE.
What do you think is our ‘City of God’ challenge, our Investiture?
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