Brian Griffith's Blog - Posts Tagged "christianity"

Down to WWII, probably most Christians still accepted an autocrat’s world view, in which the universe was an empire with an emperor, and all lesser beings were judged by how well they obeyed the emperor’s men. In that worldview, it seemed that the primary question in life, between men, women, children, or neighbors, was “Who has the higher rank? Who will command, and who will obey?” It was mainly Christian women who offered a different worldview, in which the created universe is a community, and the most important question among its members is “How good can our relations get?”Correcting Jesus: 2000 Years of Changing the Story