How does the world look from where you are?

In McLaren's book, Neo presents to a group of students, and much of his talk is centered around the last major shift in world views - from the 15th century when the Medieval gave way to the modern world view.

It's interesting to think about how big an impact our worldview has on how we perceive things around us, and yet I know I spend little time thinking about that fact - that I'm viewing everything through the eyes of a white, middle class, 40+ year old (yes I know - I cringe typing that - somewhere in side my head I still think I'm in my 20's...).

If you had talked to someone in the 15th century and described your view of the world, and church, you would have been labeled a lunatic, or a heretic - and maybe you would have been tortured or killed for your views. Our view of spirituality would have been so foreign to someone then - as would our views of science or culture. And yet people living then were at the height of the Medieval era - they were the most enlightened people that had existed up until that point in history - they were making new discoveries in science and astronomy, the church was at the height of its influence - and yet everything they understood was about to be turned on its head...maybe that's where we are today?

It seems that the emergent conversation is based around a shift in world view - from seeing things through a modern, christian-centered world view, to viewing them in the context of a post modern, post Christendom world.

The challenge for me personally is how I shake off the old and embrace the new - thoughts or ideas on a post card (or via my guest book...!!)