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A DIFFERENT CHRISTIANITYA theme - and a book -by Robin Amis
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different christianity
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Christians once believed in changing themselves, not in forcing change on others. Yet it was their energy and their beliefs of those times which formed our civilisation, and it is the drift from those ancient standards that fuels our contemporary discontents. We remember the standards of that time but no longer know how to achieve them. Our thinking has changed so much since those days that these ancient ideas have to be interpreted before they can be applied; and our way of life and our very character are so much changed that ways have to be discovered of applying ancient ideas to modern life in ways that lead us back to and not away from the original aims of Christian life. We can still discover that ancient Christianity in small pockets here and there around the world, often on the borderline of East and West, or in communities on hills and mountains from India to the United States. Properly understood, it offers an alternative solution to the human dilemma. When it is adapted to modern thought in ways that do no violence either to its original sense or to common sense, it offers practical solutions to the multiplying human problems of our time. As a reawakening of the experiential spirituality of early Christendom it provides a way of renewing the spirit and energy of society by renewing its individual members. As a form of emotional education it provides a means of restoring the moral roots of civilised human living. As the basis of an ancient form of psychotherapy it provides a means of remedying the alienation of the individual so as to restore the morale and moral fibre of society.
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