In this article, which was part of a symposium on the “Post-Christian Man” in WFMT Perspective<\/i>, Ong argues his disbelief in the Post-Christian man.\u00a0 He believes the meaning of Christianity has changed over time due to the “relationship of man to nature.”\u00a0 Ong argues that a person is not Post-Christian simply because he or she believes in the sciences and technologies of society.\u00a0 Ong also considers that people do not need to have others understand their Christianity, but each individual should understand his or her own meaning.\u00a0 According to Ong, Christianity is clearly evident, due to the millions of people practicing, but he also recognizes that numerous people have left Christianity.\u00a0 By the same token, many individuals have found a way back into Christianity.\u00a0 In fact, Christianity has spread over the last few decades.<\/p>\n
Ong responds this way to Paul Goodman’s article “We Are Post-Christian Men,” also in the same issue of WFMT Perspective<\/i>.\u00a0 Goodman expresses his belief in why people are Post-Christian, and unlike Ong, Goodman believes that the changing society results in people abandoning Christianity.\u00a0 He includes economics, the sciences, and technologies as contributing factors to why people are no longer Christian.\u00a0 Ong refutes Goodman’s ideas, and he goes on, in later writings to express his ideas about Post-Christianity.\u00a0 These later articles include “Do We Live in a Post-Christian Age?”<\/a> and “Realizing Catholicism:\u00a0 Faith, Learning, and the Future.”<\/a><\/p>\n Tina Santa Maria In this article, which was part of a symposium on the “Post-Christian Man” in WFMT Perspective, Ong argues his disbelief in the Post-Christian man.\u00a0 He believes the meaning of Christianity has changed over time due to the “relationship of man to nature.”\u00a0 Ong argues that a person is not Post-Christian simply because he or she … Continue reading Annotation: The Absurdity of the Post-Christian Myth<\/span>
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