tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163887.post7794765491539552943..comments2024-01-04T16:17:09.147+05:30Comments on Feel Philosophy: Luther's conception of Christ living and dying "for us" has radically shifted the focus of theology from God to selfTusar Nath Mohapatrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067509498066370100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14163887.post-40482850647383543622007-11-14T06:27:00.000+05:302007-11-14T06:27:00.000+05:30The Reformation was part of that time in Western h...The Reformation was part of that time in Western his-story when man himself instead of god became the focus of all cultural activities.<BR/><BR/>It coincided with the rise of scientism and its associated objectification "culture" in which the Divine Conscious Light and the possibilty of Divine Life was banished from the western cultural landscape. <BR/><BR/>But even that was the INEVITABLE historical development of the notion of God as the wholly other, the great object or other always apart from the Process that IS Man.<BR/><BR/>Luther gave us left brained man sitting alone in his room reading the Bible, which has now INEVITABLY morphed into the dreadfully sane every-person sitting alone at his/her computer screen or watching TV alone in his/her room---and surrounded by a "culture" of objects, and objectified "others", and in which the "external" world is appealed to as the only measure of what is true or real.<BR/><BR/>And in which "jesus" is just another fake self consoling consumer product.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com