54 Special: How Christianity shaped (&saves) Western Civilisation - a podcast by Br Lawrence MGL

Even for a person without faith, Christianity’s influence on western civilization is undeniable. How? Here are seven ways Christianity shaped—and can save—the values we take for granted: (1) The inviolable dignity of the person (2) The pursuit of truth (3) A belief that history is linear (4) Love and family (5) The upholding of both individuals and community (6) Meaning in suffering and death (7) The eternal perspective on life.

Excerpt from episode: "... what is the significance of the belief in that God is Truth? Well, today we say things like ‘oh there’s no such things as truth, or ‘we live in a post truth society’ or ‘your truth is just as true as my truth’, or ‘there’s only personal truth, but no objective truth’ etc. Truth has been subjectivised to the individual interpretation of it – something Pope Benedict XVI called the dictatorship of relativism.  Further, with digital media we now have an era filled with fake news, deep faking, and wilfully biased journalism oftentimes infatuated with leaders who are notorious for not telling the truth, and getting away with it. Surely, the west is in a truth crisis. Yet Christianity maintains truth as not only valuable, but insists that all truth ultimately is a reflection of the God who is truth. Hence, we believe that any pursuit of truth – whether it be in science, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, music, are in fact, a pursuit of God. This, incidentally, is also a reason why Christendom empowered the flourishing in all these fields – because truth cannot contradict truth and we believe there is a great harmonising between say, science and faith, medicine and meditation, psychology and spirituality, mathematics and mysticism. All truth can lead to God, and God himself inspires man’s reason to pursue that which is true..."

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