Christian Existential Humanism
Repost: December, 31st, 2004
Christian Existential Humanism
…is Christianity with an Existentialist perspective and a Humanist social project; all as found in the teachings of Jesus.
…is firmly grounded in the Bible, particularly in the Canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), The Acts of the Apostles and the Letter of James, from the New Testament, and Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Proverbs, Isaiah and Jeremiah from the Old Testament.
…places an emphasis on the social gospel and on the personal relationship with God through Christ.
…believes in evangelism through works and actions.
…traces back to the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, and to the influences of the traditional African-American church, which placed a high premium on individual creativity and social activism.
…believes in the authority of the Bible, as God's revelation to humanity, but does not support a legalist or strictly literal reading of the Bible.
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kitoba
May 31st
Christian Existential Humanism
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Tags: Christian, existential, humanism
My friends and i really like philosophy and are Christians. i’d just like to say that your website is great…the more i read the bigger the smile got on my face. this is exactly what i’ve come to believe too. i was turned onto existentialism by one of my Christian Psychology professors and saw it as being the natural compliment and check against Denials of Death that we get caught up in (Ernest Becker). keep up the good work…i pray we can share the balance provided in this philosophy with as many as possible.
Thank God that I found this place! Finally I can see that I am not alone I my way of thinking. God bless you all. Keep up the good work.
I am so happy to learn that I am not alone in my thinking and that now I know what my views might be considered. Thank you for helping me clarify who I am.
i am also a christian existentialist. i am currently on the process of finishing school with an secondary education degree and hope to incorporate existencialist educational methods to improving the classroom. my university does not have many who enjoy the realm of philosophy so i have few who are willing to discuss the great aspects of our existance. i found your website very helpful and motivating. if you dont mind i would like to keep in touch with you in the case of a question i may encounter for that you may then have an answer. thank you and God bless- axel
I also call myself an existential Christian, but I feel that
an existential needs to state that God is not present to any of our senses, so He does "not" exist; He "is", as Paul Tillich would state, but does not exist. Jesus would not be God, which means that I would be an"gnostic". All here on Earth is "sin", because all that not of God is sin. Christ,
as I see it is a "concept" and/or embellishment of Jesus of
Nazarath. The Jews are "not" the chosen people, but all people are chosen and equal before God, their creator.
Comments?
Robert Groeling
I hate to break the bad news to you but modern Humanists are well established and they are enlightened enough not to believe in god or any other silly religious fairy tales. Go to:
http://www.humanism.org.uk/
to find out more.
This is a retort to the claim that Modern humanists are enlightened enough not to believe in God or other silly fairy tales…
that is one of the most bigoted and ignorant sentiments I have come across on this site. First off, one cannot make such an over generalized statement as to say that all modern humanists take this stance, I am a modern humanist with a Christian belief embedded in my Existential Humanist views. To say that enlightenment brings an awareness to the non-existence of God is completely biased and without merit. True enlightenment comes when one realizes life is not of the self but in dedication and action devoted to the greater power and to humanist works.