We look at the religious perspectives of the East. In our pursuit of Biblical wholeness for modern man it is appropriate that WesternĬhristianity has come to us filtered through Greek and Roman mind-sets. That is, unless God grants us a real revival of the church in our time.īut the Bible is actually an Oriental not an Occidental Book. We will experience a "return" to the Christian values that held sway in the Sooner or later give way to a renewal of spiritual values. Scientism and atheistic humanism that has dominated our country will Often said in science, "nature abhors a vacuum." So also the materialism, In that vast land, but an enormous spiritual vacuum developed. The result was not only complete political, social and economic bankruptcy Russia suffered 70 years under government imposed atheism until recently. Thought is a complementary way of looking at things, much as male andįemale persons perceive truth and set their priorities in different ways, both One need not be not opposed to Eastern philosophy in preference to InĪccommodating today's 'secular pluralism' some scholars have said that Philosophy for further clues to push back the frontiers of physics.
A few western scientists (Ref 1) have looked to Eastern Metaphysics and New Age thinking which is reintroducing intangibleĭimensions of existence. 'Judeo-Christian heritage' has increased the curiosity of some in alternate Rejection of Biblical ideas and our so-called Materialism have left Western Man with an impoverished soul, as many Systematic study and investigation in a manner that readily generates aĬonsensus and a testable body of truth. Of course spiritual information is not accessible to the scientific method of Nominal assent to, or at least tolerating a Biblical world view, the climate in
Most all of modern secular science today isĪctually scientism, a branch of secular humanism. Observable aspects of the material world-philosophical principles and spiritual realities have been
In this century science moved towards an almost exclusive emphasis on the Pagan religious values have also been revived in America in recent decades. Original mix which was primarily "Judeo-Christian." Greek and Roman Numbers of Moslems, Buddhists, and Hindus have been added in to the Latin America, from the Asian and Far Eastern nations. The United States has always been a pluralistic society, however in the pastĬentury large numbers of new immigrants have come from Mexico and More than from the Bible so that Greek ideas strongly influence how we Science in the West derives from Greek philosophy much Influence certainly was of major importance in the early years of our However Christian and Jewish values and a strong pietistic Biblical Nature actually were the pervasive cultural roots of American democracy. Greek philosophy and Roman laws and beliefs about God and Japheth, and Japheth was a specialist in science, intellectual pursuits, and Europeans are for the most part descended from Noah's son Until recently the majority of our ancestors were of European Jewish and Christian thought on our "American way of life" is often Yin, Yang, the Tao and Wholeness YIN, YANG, THE TAO, AND WHOLENESSįor those who have grown up in Western Civilization, the influence of
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