"The Bible says that we can fix the Christian/church/family/marriage/world by doing this and that, because things always used to be this way and we need to get back to the good old days and then the Christian/church/family/marriage/world will glorify God."
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"The Bible says that we should be doing this and thinking that, even if the culture isn't changed or if trials still come or if I still fail at times, because man has always needed God's grace and we still need it in the same ways, and God will be glorified as we change and grow."
I see many books that seem to operate under the former assumption, as do I personally at times.When faced with a problem to which the world has no answer, let us be sure how we then use the Bible (note to self, especially if I ever write a book) for a solution.
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Nicholas Maxwell's "From Knowledge to Wisdom: A Revolution for Science and the Humanities" (1984, 2007) might be consulted in connection with questions concerning knowlege and wisdom. The preface to the 1984 edition says in part: "This book argues for the need to put into practice a profound and comprehensive intellectual revolution, affecting to a greater or lesser extent all branches of scientific and technological research, scholarship and education….At present inquiry is devoted to the enhancement of knowledge. This needs to be transformed into a kind of rational inquiry having as its basic aim to enhance personal and social wisdom. This new kind of inquiry gives intellectual priority to the personal and social problems we encounter in our lives as we strive to realize what is desirable and of value – problems of knowledge and technology being intellectually subordinate and secondary. For this new kind of inquiry, it is what we do and what we are that ultimately matters: our knowledge is but an aspect of our life and being…. a necessary, though not a sufficient, condition for us to develop cooperatively a better, more humane world is that we have in existence a tradition of rational inquiry of this new kind, giving priority to life and its problems, devoted to the enhancement of wisdom. At present we have no such tradition. As a result we are all more or less severely handicapped in our capacity to resolve in desirable and good ways problems we encounter in our personal and social lives. Many of our present-day social and global problems are in part due to our long-standing failure to develop such a tradition of genuinely rational, socially active thought, devoted to the growth of wisdom. This basic Socratic idea has been betrayed, and as a result, to put it at its most extreme, we now stand on the brink of self-destruction. In the circumstances, there can scarcely be any more urgent task for all those associated in any way with the academic enterprise – scientists, technologists, scholars, teachers, administrators, students, parents, providers of funds – than to help put into practice the new kind of inquiry, rationally devoted to the growth of wisdom."
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