Hi Curt. I found grounds for disagreement with what I felt that the article said on the topic of religion.
If you get a chance to discuss this, I wonder what it is that you liked about this particular viewpoint. Perhaps I read things into it that others might feel aren't there.
Hi Ilona.
After looking over your post at True Grit I think our reactions stem from different takes on emotion and intellect in religion. There's probably a generation gap as well.
I think you may have read the quote in more of an either / or way, while I saw it bolstering an intellectual tradition that I feel is neglected. Most kids today never even hear about Aristotle and the substance / accident distinction unless they 1) make it to university and 2) encounter it in one of the Arts. When these kid see religion without an intellectual component it reinforces the positivism they are raised in from childhood.
Rather than call this element emotion, I would call this idea conscience, or a sense of the sublime. Those are godly, and so is the intellect, when it is in harmony with the others. I steer away from the word emotion because I understand it as being inward looking. Conscience, subliminity, those are outward looking.
I see true religion as being holistic and addressing every part of man.
Of course much of my idea is colored by my subjective experience of it- which stands in strong contrast to what I held intellectually before.
I have to tell you that what you might call "spasms of emotion" I might very well categorize in what you would call "mysticism" or a spiritual experience of truth, rather than merely intellectual embrace of it.
What would be really interesting to me is pursuing this idea of the generational difference in how we see this. You might have something there. There might also be the dynamic of how the ISTJ and the INTP look at the article. While you may be comfortable with buoying the pillars I sometimes feel that some of the pillars are counterfeit and some are the real and we have to discern which is which.
We tend to question different things.
But for all that I know I admire your thinking and you have complimented me with your graciousness and links.
The great leveling factor is that we love Jesus Christ. And find comfort in that... and that is as it should be in my view of the world
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