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    Contemporary Christianity deadens rather than activates t... — Carmelics
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    Contemporary Christianity deadens rather than activates the spirit

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    • 1.Kierkegaard observed that Christendom replaces the radical personal risk of genuine faith with comfortable social conformity.
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    • 2.When religion becomes a civic institution, its transformative existential demand is absorbed into mere cultural membership.
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    • 3.Emerson's 'Divinity School Address' demonstrates that doctrinal repetition substitutes inherited formulae for living moral perception.
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    • 1.William James argued in 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' that institutional religion systematically privileges secondhand belief over firsthand spiritual encounter.
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    • 2.Liturgical repetition and creedal enforcement produce what Hegel called 'positive religion': externally imposed rules displacing inner moral freedom.
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    • 1.Contemporary Christianity has made Jesus — originally the friend of man — into an oppressor of man
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    • 2.Contemporary Christianity functions as an 'Eastern monarchy' that subordinates individual spiritual life to institutional authority
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    The son of a Unitarian minister, Emerson attended Harvard Divinity School and was employed as a minister for almost three years. Yet he offers a deeply felt and deeply reaching critique of Christianity in the “Divinity School Address,” flowing from a line of argument he establishes in “The American Scholar.” If the one thing in the world of value is the active soul, then religious institutions, no less than educational institutions, must be judged by that standard. Emerson finds that contemporar
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