Renaissance Fair "to be put in perspective"... is a mind fuck LARP masquerading as history. RE: Christianity - Two books, however is actually a Renaissance concept: What's the two books approach?
Today’s theologians should seek a coherent way to integrate what we are learning about the natural world through the best science with what the Holy Scriptures tell us about the God of creation and redemption. Perhaps we could revive the Renaissance concept of the Two Books. According to the concept of the Two Books, nature is a book of revelation. Nature reveals to us something about the mind of God the creator. St. Paul alludes to the book of nature.
“Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made.” ~ Romans 1:20
The second book, of course, is the Bible. In this book we learn of God the redeemer. Nature gives us general revelation, whereas the Bible gives us special revelation. The two books together provide the resources for understanding reality in relationship to God, the creator and redeemer.
"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell the: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee." ~ Job 12:7-8
I am also part Native American... Lakota Nation, Sihasapa Tribe. On one side. Protestant by way of Scandinavia and Europe on the other. It was not a stretch for me to do much in the way of comparative religions... once I acknowledged that I was, in essence, a believer in something greater than myself.
My mother by way of Norman Vincent Peale (my grandmother) was lead into New Age stuff (So Cal) that fucked her up for decades.
Irony of ironies being... she is now a PCA Presbyterian. There are 2 Christianity's... but not perhaps in the way you mean.
RE: Native American Spirituality: Natural law/Native American says there are 3 perspectives: What can we learn from them. "Which one is the good one?"/Duality...
https://youtu.be/Pf4fl2ExZjo
Renaissance Fair "to be put in perspective"... is a mind fuck LARP masquerading as history. RE: Christianity - Two books, however is actually a Renaissance concept: What's the two books approach?
Today’s theologians should seek a coherent way to integrate what we are learning about the natural world through the best science with what the Holy Scriptures tell us about the God of creation and redemption. Perhaps we could revive the Renaissance concept of the Two Books. According to the concept of the Two Books, nature is a book of revelation. Nature reveals to us something about the mind of God the creator. St. Paul alludes to the book of nature.
“Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made.” ~ Romans 1:20
The second book, of course, is the Bible. In this book we learn of God the redeemer. Nature gives us general revelation, whereas the Bible gives us special revelation. The two books together provide the resources for understanding reality in relationship to God, the creator and redeemer.
"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell the: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee." ~ Job 12:7-8
I am also part Native American... Lakota Nation, Sihasapa Tribe. On one side. Protestant by way of Scandinavia and Europe on the other. It was not a stretch for me to do much in the way of comparative religions... once I acknowledged that I was, in essence, a believer in something greater than myself.
My mother by way of Norman Vincent Peale (my grandmother) was lead into New Age stuff (So Cal) that fucked her up for decades.
Irony of ironies being... she is now a PCA Presbyterian. There are 2 Christianity's... but not perhaps in the way you mean.
RE: Native American Spirituality: Natural law/Native American says there are 3 perspectives: What can we learn from them. "Which one is the good one?"/Duality... https://youtu.be/Pf4fl2ExZjo