Reforming Christianity
Christianity rewritten in the language of eternity
I’ve been following a series of articles on Christianity’s next reformation by Graham Pemberton and Gerald R. Baron. Graham’s most recent article is about the Genesis myth and I wanted to add my thoughts.
I’m not a Christian and no expert on Christian theology, but I’m always inclined to adjust its theology to make it more universal and compatible with a religious pluralism.
While some characterise our world as a secular age, it’s more accurate to say we live in a pluralist age. Our global society has access to the values and beliefs of every culture. We each have a smorgasbord of spiritual and religious teachings to choose from.
In such an environment, it’s no longer feasible to think any one culture, or any one religion has exclusive access to the truth. We all know thoughtful and ethical people who follow very different ideologies from us. Only the most dogmatic viewpoint could conclude those who hold different beliefs must be less intelligent, or are somehow wilfully evil.
And it’s this experiential evidence of the truth of religious pluralism that Christianity needs to incorporate. It’s not enough to maintain an exclusivist theology while justifying it by appealing to a divine mystery. The theology should logically…
