Postmodern Pluralistic Integration, Part 2

In our modern way of thinking we separate everything into smaller and smaller units. Until we get to the individual. (And we even break that down, which can lead to some of the problems we our facing today. Ok a lot of the problems.) Therefore the task that is ahead of us, which can be accomplished through the Postmodern Pluralistic Integration way of thinking, is to put the pieces back together. It is important to remember that the modern era was not evil in separating the parts and giving us the individual. It would be evil of us, however, if we did not take the next step along the way.

You have heard it said, “Don’t fix it if it ain’t broken.” Well I have always said, “Don’t break it if you can’t fix it.” Through the modern era we as humanity, particularly western humanity, have taken apart God’s creation piece by piece. We have gone from the overall picture of the universe in Newton and Einstein’s theory of gravity down to the very energy that we are made up of in Quantum Mechanics and String theory and everything in-between. (see The Elegant Universe )

We are like children who have taken apart their parent’s alarm clock. The parent will only get mad if we can’t put the clock back together again. We must now set about the task of putting God’s clock back together. We have learned many things by taking it apart. But what we learned will do us no good if we cannot put it back together. Integration now becomes the task. Instead of arguing whether the truth of the alarm clock is to be found in the spring or in the faceplate or maybe in the bell. The truth of the alarm clock can now be seen in the interrelationship between the parts. In this way interrelationships become the key to our understanding of truth.

With this in mind we must put back together the elements of spirituality that we have taken apart.