Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

The Search for Answers and Meaning

Recently I’ve come to view cul­ture and soci­ety as a search for answers and mean­ing. It seems to me that this is some­thing I should have hap­pened upon a long time ago, how­ever, that’s of no con­se­quence now. What this means, though, is that how I approach post­moder­nity within Chris­tian­ity has changed some what, in the sense that, I think, I have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what exactly is going on. I’ve tried to cre­ate an illus­tra­tion or anal­ogy to cap­ture my thought process, so hope­fully what fol­lows does exactly that, rather than fail.

In my illus­tra­tion I view real­ity as a very long hall­way. At the end of the hall­way is a door, behind which is God. All along this hall­way there are many other doors. These many doors rep­re­sent dif­fer­ent attempts to find answers and mean­ing to life’s ques­tion and pur­pose. Not every cul­ture will try every door, they … (Read more)