SATAN'S
LAST STAND
(Gen.
11:1-10; Rev. 12:7-11)
PREMODERN
- Early Concepts of God, Truth and the Universe
Absolutes
World-View - God's Rule
Time:
Ancient Greek through to Renaissance/Reformation
World
View: Multi-faceted, Mysterious, Moral
Reality
Creates Interpretation ("I Call Them The
Way They Are")
Culture
- Agricultural (Earth, Nature, Spirit)
Common
Elements - Deity (Supernatural) - Analytic (Absolute
Truth)
Virtue
- Purpose through Truth - Wisdom
Tools:
Study, Prayer, Authority ("Who are you looking
to for direction?")
Truth
is Marvelous - Moral Expedition - All
That Is Can Be Known
Enemy:
Deceit and Sin Battlefield: Soul
Goal:
Power to Explore God's Universe
FOCUS:
Spirit - Find God
MODERN - Last
200 years of Western Culture
Autonomous
World-View - Man Rules
Time:
Enlightenment: French Revolution 1789- Fall of
Berlin Wall (Communism) 1989
World-View:
Materialistic, Mechanical, Marxist
My
Interpretation Of Reality ("I Call Them
The Way I See Them")
Culture
- Industrial (Time, Machine, Fire)
Common
Elements: Deist- Atheist - Rationalist
Virtue
- Perfection through Technology - Knowledge
Tools:
Demythology, Science, Comparison ("How do you
know that is true?")
Truth
is Mind - Mental Exploration - All That
Can Be Known Is Material
Enemy:
Ignorance, Superstition, Non-rational Battlefield:
Mind
Goal
- Power to Control Our Universe
FOCUS:
Stuff - Forget God POSTMODERN -
Present Developing Spiritual-Cultural Climate
Anti-WorldView
- No Rules
Time:
Present Climate: 1970 (U.S. - Kent State) - Future
- 2001+
World-View:
Multicultural, Methodological (orthopraxy not orthodoxy),
Minority-Rule
Interpretation/Language
Creates Reality ("They're Nothing
Until I Call Them")
Culture
- Information (Space, Network, Air)
Common
Elements: Monist - Cynical - Critical - Mystical
- Personal Experience
Tools:
Deconstruction, Denial, Disapproval ("What right
do you have to say that?")
Truth
is Made Up - Cultural Construction - Nothing
Can Be Surely Known
Virtue
- Peace Through Tolerance - Tolerate Anything
Except Intolerance
Enemy:
Intolerance: Fundamentalist, Hierarchy, Missionary Battlefield:
Language
Goal
- Power to Create Our Own Universe
FOCUS:
Self - Be God
©
1997 Winkie Pratney. Contact at Box 876 Lindale, TX
75771
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