I've previously mentioned my enjoyment of Richard Beck's Experimental Theology blog. His latest post deals with the idea of "theological worlds" which he takes from Paul Jones. I haven't read Jones' book, but I love the idea. To summarise his summary, each person has their own obsessio, the question that drives their life and keeps them awake at night, the core problem that they need to solve. They also have (or at least need) their own epiphania, the revelation or source of hope that helps them answer their obsessio . Each person's obsessio is their own and they need to find their own epiphania to answer it. The interplay of these two creates their "theological world". In traditional Protestantism, the dominant obsessio is about guilt and sin, and hence the dominant epiphania is the experience of God's grace and forgiveness, expressed through Jesus' sacrifice for us. This is the dominant theological world of our Prote
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson