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	Materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In philosophy, materialism is that form of physicalism which holds that the only thing that can truly be said to exist is matter; that fundamentally, all things are composed of material and all phenomena are the result of material interactions.
		Materialism is sometimes allied with the methodological principle of reductionism, according to which the objects or phenomena individuated at one level of description, if they are genuine, must be explicable in terms of the objects or phenomena at some other level of description -- typically, a more general level than the reduced one.
		Materialism has frequently been understood to designate an entire scientific, rationalistic world view, particularly by religious thinkers opposed to it, who regard it as a spiritually empty religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Materialism (964 words)

	Christian materialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christian materialism is the combination of the theology, concepts, and holy writings of Christianity with the philosophy of materialism, which places primary importance on material objects and their interrelationships.
		Escriva criticized those who "have tried to present the Christian way of life as something exclusively spiritual, proper to pure, extraordinary people, who remain aloof from the contemptible things of this world, or at most tolerate them as something necessarily attached to the spirit, while we live on this earth.
		According to the Christian Existential Humanism: "Christian Materialism quietly emerged from the earlier 'fundamentalist' movement in the late twentieth century, in a bold takeover that went largely unnoticed outside the religious community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_materialism (635 words)

	Philosophical Materialism
		Materialism has always viewed atheism merely as a necessary consequence of its premises, not as a philosophically important end in itself.
		So materialism has always inferred its theories from the best empirical evidence at hand and has as a result always had its metascientific hypotheses scientifically confirmed, because the basic assumption of valid science has also always been that nature is governed by coherent, discoverable physical laws.
		Materialism is now the dominant systematic ontology among philosophers and scientists, and there are currently no established alternative ontological views competing with it" (p.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/richard_vitzthum/materialism.html (5252 words)

	Christian Materialism
		We modern Christians seem to believe very strongly that materialism is a sin.
		In Christian songs and Christian magazines we have made the idea that a sincere Christian cannot be a materialist into a sort of cliche.
		The more that material things and their acquisition, preservation, and disposal occupy our lives (and consequently, our hearts), the less room there is for God's spirit to work in us and the more our joy as Christians is stolen by the world.
	www.cs.wm.edu /~rmmarm/Essays/stewardship.html (1099 words)

	Untitled
		There are various streams of Christian teachings on this subject, many of them stemming back to the very beginnings of Christianity.
		Christian understandings in this area have been muddied by elements imported from philosophies outside Christianity as they have with many other issues.
		This issue is also closely connected to the christian's need to define christian spirituality, and it is this need that the church as a whole is only slowly waking up to.
	www.mattcohn.net /teachings.html (1376 words)

	Goosing the Antithesis: Killing the Antithesis
		The Christian's place in the universe is that of both slave to divine whim and slavemaster to those inferior to himself on the social hierarchy established by Christianity (Jesus first, then the religious and political authorities, then men, then women, then their slaves).
		Their athiestic materialism may not be the cause, but if you take exception to these cases as proving nothing, I think you understand why I must (respectfully) call bullshit on the premise that religion has kept us from much.
		From your claim that Christianity "considers man as the opposite and the enemy of nature and the natural" to "my place in the universe is that of an epistemic agent no different from any other structure of matter in the universe" your formulation of what is a Christian worldview is simply false.
	goosetheantithesis.blogspot.com /2005/12/killing-antithesis.html (2642 words)

	The Christian Materialism of Blessed The Christian Materialism of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá
		And being a Christian means going to church, taking part in sacred ceremonies, being taken up with ecclesiastical matters, in a kind of segregated world, which is considered to be the ante-chamber of heaven, while the ordinary world follows its own separate path" (Conversations with Msgr.
		He went further, affirming the "high value of the material," presenting the idea of a Christian materialism: "Authentic Christianity, which professes the resurrection of all flesh, has always quite logically opposed 'dis-incarnation,' without fear of being judged materialistic.
		Discovering the spiritual in the material is nothing else than the "contemplative life in the world." Blessed Josemaria constantly preached that New Testament message, a message that the world had been unable to hear.
	www.escriva.it /Ing/19970301.htm (1023 words)

	Thinking Christian
		His message revolves around two themes: Christianity (the focus of the segment linked above) is blind, irrational, unthinking, anti-science; and religion in general is a horrific scourge upon the peace and well-being of the earth.
		Christians are stuck centuries--no, millennia--behind the rest of the civilized world.
		The Christian view is that humans are plagued with "original sin," a condition in which all that we are and all that we do is tainted, marred, corrupted by our inborn tendency to hide from God, and to set ourselves up as master.
	thinkingchristian.net (4709 words)

	American Decency Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		What most Christian parents aren’t aware of is that the foundation for this attack was laid long before the students went to freshman orientation.
		I am continually surprised at how little consciousness there is among Christian young people that they are impacted by what they view; that their resistance to evil is deadened by what they let into their hearts.
		Developing Christian “filters” for our families, regarding what our eyes see, what our ears hear, and what we spend time doing, is a matter of essential importance to the Christian living and parenting in the 21st century Western world.
	www.americandecency.org /email_updates/email09.08.05.htm (804 words)

	Hazardous Materialism by J.V. Fesko
		Rather, it is the priority of those material possessions in our lives that makes all of the difference in the world.
		The main issue is to recognize the danger of idolatry that exists with materialism, and to do that we must recognize the bareness involved in materialism.
		These two aspects of the dangers of materialism, namely the subtle way that materialism can lure us away from God, and the fleeting nature of material things, help illustrate the way that God wants us to conduct ourselves.
	www.rts.edu /quarterly/spring03/fesko.html (1406 words)

	Proven Results
		Christian School teachers teach the Christian worldview, not the worldview that focuses on relativism and materialism.
		Christian Schools have reasonable standards of discipline, and hold the children accountable for their actions.
		Christian Schools believe that your child is a gift from God, and that God has a good plan for him or her.
	www.pcaschool.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=about.results (337 words)

	CHRISTIAN MATERIALISM AND THE FATE OF EUROPE
		He has not fully succeeded with the leaders of Orthodox Christianity and he is believed to be privately distressed that Muslim leaders have been often frightened by their own extremists into remaining silent about attacks on Christians and Christianity.
		For the Christian churches that survived the oppression of communism seem to be succumbing to the euthanasia of post-Christian consumer materialism under liberty.
		That omission is deliberate and reflects an increasing hostility to Christianity and religious belief in the secular elites that govern Europe.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=12706 (1061 words)

	Christian Skepticism
		Christian: The traditional sense will work here: One who believes that Jesus was God incarnate, who believes that He chose to sacrifice Himself through His grace, to show His love to mankind.
		Christian above does not mean that the language does not support the meaning of “follower of Christ”.
		Christian materialism would be (but some people make a pretty good living off of that one.) But not entirely so Christian skepticism.
	www.christian-philosopher.com /doc/ChristianSkeptic.html (2382 words)

	Worldviews Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Christian theism is just our Judeo-Christian moral heritage, in practice helping to bring about the mindset Founding Father John Adams spoke of when he said, "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
		We wish to encourage discussion of our central dilemmas from a perspective that recognizes the centrality of a Christian ethos, emerging from within the mindset of the people (and not opposed from the top down, as with theocracy), to a free society and therefore to the restoration of our Constitutional republic if that is possible.
		If materialism offers a false view of the universe, its origins, and human life, however, we would expect negative consequences to ensue, just as the person who steps off the roof of a building under the illusion that he can fly.
	www.worldviewsproject.org (740 words)

	Spiritual Success or Distress? - quarter 4, lesson 2
		The roots of materialism are (1) a self-centered existence, (2) the belief that true reality centers in the physical, and (3) the desire for a physical existence that eliminates the need to consider God.
		Focus attention on a common situation: many Christians think they prevent materialism by declaring what materialism "is not." Even if their conclusions are correct (such conclusions often involve assumptions), understanding what materialism "is not" does not correctly identify what materialism "is." Such ignorance leaves the person vulnerable and easily deceived.
		Typically, Christians prefer to address questions and seek their answers when (1) the answer is an external specific; (2) the answer does not require an internal evaluation; (3) the answer involves little or no internal change; and (4) the answer focuses on a specific action that will "fix" the problem "once for all time.
	www.westarkchurchofchrist.org /chadwell/teaching/y2000q4l2.htm (1594 words)

	Cornerstone Magazine :: A Conspiracy of Things: The Christian and Materialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But by definition, Christianity can't be totally plugged into a system, or vice‑versa.
		Material items rarely enter the picture, and when they do the picture is of selfishness, greed, and dryness toward God and others.
		The language of finance is filled with terms indicating that wealth protects; "securities," "safety net," "futures." On the personal level we are warned to prepare for the future by storing away wealth, a "nest egg" that will protect us from anything from lawsuits to hospitalization.
	www.cornerstonemag.com /pages/show_page.asp?195 (1543 words)

	CRI Journal - CRJ0115A
		The chant is thus believed to be a repository of magical power so that the disciple can instill the alleged material and spiritual benefits of the sutra into his or her life, even without reading it.
		While it is true that NS rejects the Christian concept of God, it is also clear that the mystical life essence ("the very source of the universe") is divinized, and that the Gohonzon is the visible expression of it.
		First, Christianity's God is held to be a myth and so its teaching on the atoning death of Christ -- God's Son -- is also held to be a myth.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0115a.html (3818 words)

	THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN THEISM, METAPHYSICAL NATURALISM AND RELATIVISM: HOW TO PROCEED IN SCIENCE? by Jitse M. ...
		of methodological materialism and the ideal of the universal
		Materialism can be held in at least two different ways.
		Materialism as a religious belief cannot be doubted theoretically
	www.asa3.org /evolution/vandermeer.html (5553 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If eminent experts say that evolution according to Gould is too confused to be worth bothering about, and others equally eminent say that evolution according to Dawkins rests on unsubstantiated assertions and counterfactual claims, the public can hardly be blamed for suspecting that grand-scale evolution may rest on something less impressive than rock-solid, unimpeachable fact.
		Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we > cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
		To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any > moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may > happen.
	www.christian-faith.com /mail/page/scientific_materialism (329 words)

	Bible Study
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		For the Christian, materialism is the number one threat to a continued walk with the Lord.
		The Christian must also understand that tithing is not a step towards personal surrender to God, it is something you do as a result of having already surrendered to Him.
	www.coeinc.org /Materials/BibleStudy.htm (9497 words)

	IV -- SPIRIT TRIUMPHANT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In early Christianity, man is everywhere directed to the words of the Gospel: “He Whom ye seek is not here.” Expanding this, we might say: Seek Him in spiritual worlds, not in the physical-material world.
		The crucifix is the expression of the transition to Christian materialism.
		It is characteristic of a Christianity developing more and more in the direction of intellectualism that certain of its representatives to-day even go as far as to say that the Gospels are concerned primarily with the Father, not with the Son.
	wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/19210327p01.html (3354 words)

	Spiritual Success or Distress? - quarter 4, lesson 2
		From the Christian perspective, materialism is at the least "bad" or at the most "evil." It properly belongs with ungodly perspectives.
		The only "certain" matter about materialism is this: materialism is a "them" problem, not a "me" or "us" problem.
		Christians tend to be more comfortable declaring what materialism is not.
	www.westarkchurchofchrist.org /chadwell/y2000q4l2.htm (771 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Rejection of Materialism: The Case for Judeo-Christian Values, Part XXI by Dennis Prager
		But philosophically, "materialism" means that the only reality is matter, that there is no reality beyond the material world.
		First, devoid of religious meaning in their lives, for many on the Left, social change -- or as it is known today, "social justice," the term for left-wing social change -- has become their substitute religion and provider of meaning.
		Yet religious Americans who reject materialism are far more likely than left-leaning parents in the same socio-economic condition to sacrifice materially in order to have one parent be a full-time parent.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19233 (839 words)

	Mission & Ministry, Miami, Florida - Barry University
		Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA): RCIA is a course of instruction for adults seeking initiation into the Catholic Church.
		If you have never been baptized or you were baptized (in any Christian faith) but did not receive your First Communion and/or have not been confirmed, RCIA will guide you in your spiritual journey.
		Integrity: Unlike many Christian denominations, Catholicism respects the fact that homosexuality is not a chosen "lifestyle," but rather a bio-psychological orientation, and like any and every human person, the homosexual individual is "called to fulfill God's will" in his or her life.
	www.barry.edu /campusMinistry/activities (892 words)

	Theology Today: Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This short collection of essays is a first-rate contribution to the continued harvesting of work in the analytical philosophy of the Christian religion.
		It is a splendid review of his pilgrimage from a form of secular humanism to a fullblooded Christian theism.
		The core of the work is a remarkable exposition and defense of a form of Christian materialism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_199904/ai_n8851001 (265 words)

	ICPF - Collegiate Fisherman
		Yet it remains a blatant reality that a vast number who professes to be born again are pursuing material prosperity in the name of 'blessings of Abraham'.
		It is a gross error to concede that the 'blessing of Abraham', is wealth and prosperity.
		The materialistic Christian has perverted this 'heavenly blessing' into an 'earthly blessing' and turned this gospel of grace into a gospel of material prosperity.
	www.icpf.org /fisherman/May2003/article4.htm (2054 words)

	John Wesley's "Trilateral"
		In one especially convicting sermon Wesley asks, "Why has Christianity done so little good?" and cites Christian's materialism as a major cause of the "inefficacy of Christianity." And, Wesley was not shy about mentioning the eternal consequences of materialism.
		For instance, long before the dangers of lead poisoning was popularized, Wesley urged Christians working with lead to exchange their work as soon as they could, not exchanging life or health for gain.
		Nine out of ten Christian today who quote Wesley's Trilateral miss his meaning of "Save all you can." It doesn't mean Christians should tuck away as much as possible into savings accounts.
	www.drurywriting.com /keith/wesley.htm (1171 words)

	Dinner Table Donts: On Idolizing Purity
		My point was not so much about couples talking about sex as it was the general attitude of Christians to talk of sex ONLY in relation to purity.
		It seems to me that Christians flirt with the danger of idolizing purity, rather than recognizing its rightful place as an attribute of Christ to be reflected in us.
		When purity is idolized, it is twisted to be something it is not - it becomes the end goal, rather than our relationship with Christ.
	dinnertabledonts.blogspot.com /2005/12/on-idolizing-purity.html (460 words)

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