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reframing our beliefs
for a new millennium
From the place where   But doubts and loves
we are right
                           Dig up the world
Flowers will never
grow                   Like a mole, a plow.
In the spring.
                       And a whisper will be
The place where we        heard in the place
are right                  Where the ruined
Is hard and trampled     House once stood.
Like a yard.                    Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
a new kind of
christianity:
ten questions that
are transforming the
faith
Something is on the way out and something else
                              is painfully being born.
It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and
                                     exhausting itself,
  while something else, still indistinct, were arising
                                   from the rubble....
    We are in a phase when one age is succeeding
               another, when everything is possible.
                      Vaclav Havel, “The New Measure of Man”
It would be very surprising if this

religion, so youthful, yet so varied in its

historical experience, had now revealed

all its secrets.
                                                      Diarmaid MacCulloch

       (Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years [Viking, 2009] p. 1016)
Fr. Vincent Donovan:


Do not leave them where they are.
Do not bring them to where you are, as
beautiful as that place might be.


Instead, go with them to a new place
neither of you has ever been before.
500 years ago: Luther’s 95 theses.
Theses are statements of belief
intended for debate, to bring us to a
new state.


Needed today: not statements, debate,
or a new state (static location)


Rather ...
Needed today:
New questions to create conversations
to lead us on a new quest.
Statements


  !              ?
             Questions
What are the questions?


1. The narrative question: What is the shape of the
biblical narrative? Storyline, plotline?


2. The authority question: What is the Bible, and
what is it for? How does it have authority?


3. The God question: Is God violent? Why does
God seem so violent and genocidal in so many
bible passages?
4. The Jesus Question: Who is Jesus, and
why does he matter?


5. The Gospel Question: What is the gospel
- a message of evacuation or
transformation? Exclusion or inclusion?
6. The church question: What do we
do about the church?


7. The sex question: Can we deal
with issues of sexuality without
fighting and dividing?


8. The future question: Can we find a
more hopeful vision of the future?
9. The pluralism question: How
should we relate to people of other
faiths?


10. The next step question: How can
we pursue this quest in humility,
love, and peace?
How things should/could/might be


                   Tension


               How things are


                   Tension


                             How things used to be
reframing our beliefs
for a new millennium
Question 1:
What is the shape of the
biblical narrative?

              (A pre-critical question)
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Eden                      Heaven



       Fall               Salvation


              History/
              The world
                                      Hell
Platonic Ideal                  Platonic Ideal



        Fall                    Atonement,
                                purification
        Into
Aristotelian     Aristotelian
       Real
                 Real
                                              Hades
Pax Romana                 Pax Romana

                                  Civilization,
 Rebellion                       development,
       into                        colonialism
 barbarism    Barbarian/          assimilation
              pagan
              world
                               Destruction,
                               defeat
Is there an
alternative
understanding?
sdrawkcab gnidaer
Rick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther,
Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus




reading forwards
Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus
Exodus: Liberation & Formation
Exodus: Liberation & Formation



Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and
                 Mercy



        Exodus: Liberation & Formation



Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
G
e
      Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and
n
      Mercy
e
s
i
s


    Exodus: Liberation & Formation
HUMAN DESTRUCTION
  G
  e
         Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and
  n
         Mercy
  e
      HUMAN VIOLENCE
  s
  i
  s   HUMAN EXPLOITATION

       Exodus: Liberation & Formation
HUMAN DESTRUCTION
  G
  e
         Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and
  n
         Mercy
  e
      HUMAN VIOLENCE
  s
  i
  s   HUMAN EXPLOITATION

       Exodus: Liberation & Formation
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Ivan Illich (Austrian
        former priest,
  philosopher, social
   critic, 1926-2002)
Neither revolution nor reformation
can ultimately change a society,
rather you must tell a new powerful
tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps
away the old myths and becomes the
preferred story …
… one so inclusive that it gathers all the
bits of our past and our present into a
coherent whole, one that even shines
some light into the future so that we can
take the next step…. If you want to
change a society, then you have to tell an
alternative story.
  - attributed to Ivan Illich (Austrian former priest,
              philosopher, social critic, 1926-2002)
reframing our beliefs
for a new millennium
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Question 10: How
  can we engage
        with these
questions without
      fighting and
         dividing?
A way of thinking
            about
   organizational
         change:

   insights from
 macrohistorians
Coral: holy people
              __________
Ultraviolet: compassionate communities
Violet: globally-networked individuals
              __________
Indigo: “citizens of the world”
Blue: nation-states/democracies
Green: kingdoms/empires
Yellow: warlords
Orange: agricultural chiefdoms
Red: hunter/gatherer band
Coral: one with God
              __________
Ultraviolet: holistic, unifying
Violet: integral, systemic, otherly
              __________
Indigo: pluralist, relativist, globalist
Blue: individualist, rationalist, ideologue
Green: nationalist, rules, codes
Yellow: feudal, power-oriented
Orange: tribal, magical, animist
Red: survival, instinctual, “reptilian”
Coral: Quest for theosis
              __________
Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness
Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness)
              __________
Indigo: Quest for honesty
Blue: Quest for Individuality
Green: Quest for Independence
Yellow: Quest for power
Orange: Quest for security
Red: Quest for survival
Coral: Quest for theosis
             __________
Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness
Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness)
             __________
Indigo: Quest for honesty
Blue: Quest for Individuality
Green: Quest for Independence
Yellow: Quest for power
Orange: Quest for security
Red: Quest for survival
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Cultures may include two
 or more zones, but will
 have a center of gravity in
 one.
They may regress.
Development =

1.Differentiate/Transcend

2.Integrate/Include
If we don’t differentiate or
   transcend, we experience
   stagnation, fixation and
   stuckness.

If we don’t integrate and include,
   we experience disassociation
   and a backward attack-focus.
Coral: Quest for theosis
              __________
Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness
Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness)
              __________
Indigo: Quest for honesty
Blue: Quest for Individuality
Green: Quest for Independence
Yellow: Quest for power
Orange: Quest for security
Red: Quest for survival
First tier zones think in terms
of right/wrong and good/evil.

Other zones are evil/wrong:
our zone is good/right.
Second tier zones think in terms of
appropriate and adequate.

Other zones are adequate for
their times and situations; we seek
the zone that is appropriate for us
here and now.
Think of climbing a ladder.
You gain a new and wider view from each
rung.

Your earlier view was not wrong - only
partial.

Early zones truly describe the way the
world looks to people at that vantage point.

    You couldn’t get to the higher rungs if it
               weren’t for the lower rungs.
This approach is not absolutist.
It doesn’t claim one view is right and
previous (or later) ones are wrong.

Nor is it relativist.
It doesn’t say that no views are truly
right, but only think they are.

It says all views are partial and that
greater wholeness is better than lesser
wholeness.
St. Paul seems to agree:

When I was a child, I spoke and thought
and reasoned like a child,
     But when I became an adult,
     I gave up childish ways.

For now we see in a mirror dimly,
     But then face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall
understand fully,
     Even as I have been fully
     understood.
So faith, hope, and love abide, these
three;
       But the greatest of these is
       love.

I will show you the most excellent
way.
      Follow the way of love.
Amen.
Exercise:
Consider the following in light of the spiral
dynamics schema:         Coral: one with God
                                        __________
  Your life              Ultraviolet: holistic, unifying
                         Violet: integral, systemic, otherly
  Your church                           __________
                         Indigo: pluralist, relativist, globalist
  Your denomination      Blue:            individualist, rationalist, ideologue
                         Green: nationalist, rules, codes
  Your nation            Yellow: feudal, power-oriented
                         Orange: tribal, magical, animist
  The world              Red: survival, instinctual, “reptilian”

Where is the center of gravity?
Where are the points of tension?
Where are breakthroughs happening?
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How can we help our communities move
forward?
What will cause people to entrench?
What cost will we pay for stimulating
forward movement?

How can we make our churches safe for
people at each zone?
How can we not get stuck?
reframing our beliefs
for a new millennium

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  • 1. reframing our beliefs for a new millennium
  • 2. From the place where But doubts and loves we are right Dig up the world Flowers will never grow Like a mole, a plow. In the spring. And a whisper will be The place where we heard in the place are right Where the ruined Is hard and trampled House once stood. Like a yard. Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
  • 3. a new kind of christianity: ten questions that are transforming the faith
  • 4. Something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself, while something else, still indistinct, were arising from the rubble.... We are in a phase when one age is succeeding another, when everything is possible. Vaclav Havel, “The New Measure of Man”
  • 5. It would be very surprising if this religion, so youthful, yet so varied in its historical experience, had now revealed all its secrets. Diarmaid MacCulloch (Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years [Viking, 2009] p. 1016)
  • 6. Fr. Vincent Donovan: Do not leave them where they are. Do not bring them to where you are, as beautiful as that place might be. Instead, go with them to a new place neither of you has ever been before.
  • 7. 500 years ago: Luther’s 95 theses. Theses are statements of belief intended for debate, to bring us to a new state. Needed today: not statements, debate, or a new state (static location) Rather ...
  • 8. Needed today: New questions to create conversations to lead us on a new quest.
  • 9. Statements ! ? Questions
  • 10. What are the questions? 1. The narrative question: What is the shape of the biblical narrative? Storyline, plotline? 2. The authority question: What is the Bible, and what is it for? How does it have authority? 3. The God question: Is God violent? Why does God seem so violent and genocidal in so many bible passages?
  • 11. 4. The Jesus Question: Who is Jesus, and why does he matter? 5. The Gospel Question: What is the gospel - a message of evacuation or transformation? Exclusion or inclusion?
  • 12. 6. The church question: What do we do about the church? 7. The sex question: Can we deal with issues of sexuality without fighting and dividing? 8. The future question: Can we find a more hopeful vision of the future?
  • 13. 9. The pluralism question: How should we relate to people of other faiths? 10. The next step question: How can we pursue this quest in humility, love, and peace?
  • 14. How things should/could/might be Tension How things are Tension How things used to be
  • 15. reframing our beliefs for a new millennium
  • 16. Question 1: What is the shape of the biblical narrative? (A pre-critical question)
  • 18. Eden Heaven Fall Salvation History/ The world Hell
  • 19. Platonic Ideal Platonic Ideal Fall Atonement, purification Into Aristotelian Aristotelian Real Real Hades
  • 20. Pax Romana Pax Romana Civilization, Rebellion development, into colonialism barbarism Barbarian/ assimilation pagan world Destruction, defeat
  • 22. sdrawkcab gnidaer Rick Warren, Billy Graham, Charles Finney, John Wesley (or Calvin), Luther, Aquinas, Augustine, Paul, Jesus reading forwards Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus
  • 23. Exodus: Liberation & Formation
  • 24. Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
  • 25. Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and Mercy Exodus: Liberation & Formation Genesis: Creation and Reconciliation
  • 26. G e Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and n Mercy e s i s Exodus: Liberation & Formation
  • 27. HUMAN DESTRUCTION G e Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and n Mercy e HUMAN VIOLENCE s i s HUMAN EXPLOITATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation
  • 28. HUMAN DESTRUCTION G e Isaiah: Peaceable Kingdom - Justice and n Mercy e HUMAN VIOLENCE s i s HUMAN EXPLOITATION Exodus: Liberation & Formation
  • 33. Ivan Illich (Austrian former priest, philosopher, social critic, 1926-2002)
  • 34. Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story …
  • 35. … one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step…. If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story. - attributed to Ivan Illich (Austrian former priest, philosopher, social critic, 1926-2002)
  • 36. reframing our beliefs for a new millennium
  • 38. Question 10: How can we engage with these questions without fighting and dividing?
  • 39. A way of thinking about organizational change: insights from macrohistorians
  • 40. Coral: holy people __________ Ultraviolet: compassionate communities Violet: globally-networked individuals __________ Indigo: “citizens of the world” Blue: nation-states/democracies Green: kingdoms/empires Yellow: warlords Orange: agricultural chiefdoms Red: hunter/gatherer band
  • 41. Coral: one with God __________ Ultraviolet: holistic, unifying Violet: integral, systemic, otherly __________ Indigo: pluralist, relativist, globalist Blue: individualist, rationalist, ideologue Green: nationalist, rules, codes Yellow: feudal, power-oriented Orange: tribal, magical, animist Red: survival, instinctual, “reptilian”
  • 42. Coral: Quest for theosis __________ Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness) __________ Indigo: Quest for honesty Blue: Quest for Individuality Green: Quest for Independence Yellow: Quest for power Orange: Quest for security Red: Quest for survival
  • 43. Coral: Quest for theosis __________ Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness) __________ Indigo: Quest for honesty Blue: Quest for Individuality Green: Quest for Independence Yellow: Quest for power Orange: Quest for security Red: Quest for survival
  • 45. Cultures may include two or more zones, but will have a center of gravity in one. They may regress.
  • 47. If we don’t differentiate or transcend, we experience stagnation, fixation and stuckness. If we don’t integrate and include, we experience disassociation and a backward attack-focus.
  • 48. Coral: Quest for theosis __________ Ultraviolet: Quest for sacredness Violet: Quest for ubuntu (otherliness) __________ Indigo: Quest for honesty Blue: Quest for Individuality Green: Quest for Independence Yellow: Quest for power Orange: Quest for security Red: Quest for survival
  • 49. First tier zones think in terms of right/wrong and good/evil. Other zones are evil/wrong: our zone is good/right.
  • 50. Second tier zones think in terms of appropriate and adequate. Other zones are adequate for their times and situations; we seek the zone that is appropriate for us here and now.
  • 51. Think of climbing a ladder. You gain a new and wider view from each rung. Your earlier view was not wrong - only partial. Early zones truly describe the way the world looks to people at that vantage point. You couldn’t get to the higher rungs if it weren’t for the lower rungs.
  • 52. This approach is not absolutist. It doesn’t claim one view is right and previous (or later) ones are wrong. Nor is it relativist. It doesn’t say that no views are truly right, but only think they are. It says all views are partial and that greater wholeness is better than lesser wholeness.
  • 53. St. Paul seems to agree: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned like a child, But when I became an adult, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, But then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, Even as I have been fully understood.
  • 54. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three; But the greatest of these is love. I will show you the most excellent way. Follow the way of love. Amen.
  • 55. Exercise: Consider the following in light of the spiral dynamics schema: Coral: one with God __________ Your life Ultraviolet: holistic, unifying Violet: integral, systemic, otherly Your church __________ Indigo: pluralist, relativist, globalist Your denomination Blue: individualist, rationalist, ideologue Green: nationalist, rules, codes Your nation Yellow: feudal, power-oriented Orange: tribal, magical, animist The world Red: survival, instinctual, “reptilian” Where is the center of gravity? Where are the points of tension? Where are breakthroughs happening?
  • 57. How can we help our communities move forward? What will cause people to entrench? What cost will we pay for stimulating forward movement? How can we make our churches safe for people at each zone? How can we not get stuck?
  • 58. reframing our beliefs for a new millennium

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