Many modern historians feel deeply uncomfortable with the rhetoric of civilization which was the driving ethos off the colonial era. While some colonials were blatantly exploitative, & others just along for the ride (as you do) many people in the colonial era were motivated by a profound sense of duty to humanity as a whole. As the recent industrial era formed a bridge of transition from agrarian based eternal life assurance reserve to knowledge based eternal life assurance reserve; they may have succeeded to a greater extent than modern critics give them credit for.
Homo Sapiens has existed as a distinct physical species for 50,000 years. (More or less) Only once before, the axial age which made the transition from stone age hunter gatherer to early agrarian industrial civilization had man changed the whole human condition by act of self determination alone. During the recent great western material transition, the colonial era was well aware of the immensity of what it was doing (How often do you get to do something this big?) Little wonder they were full of themselves & held themselves Gods greatest gift to humanity. Good reason to be full off themselves or not, pride cometh before a fall. WW!, a clash of inflated ego’s, was one of the greatest moral failures of the Christian world.
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The ethos of gifting a higher civilization has its roots in the Christian religion.
The lords prayer requires… ~Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven~ Christ came to save humanity. Humanity is a physical condition that lives on this earth. While its roots are in the highest mysteries, Christianity is a reality religion charged with saving humanity in the highest, by the gifting of the most high to all mankind in this life on this earth. See ~heaven & hell – two eternals~ under Christianity tab on this Webb-site.
The God of the Old Testament is a God of the highest developed abstracts. Jesus Christ his Son is a God of the highest humanities. The Holy Spirit, which emanates from both, is thus the spirit of the most high. While these three fulfill separate functions, they are held a common community within the common body of the most high, making each of the same origin, substance & essence as each other. Thus, the gifting of the most high to all off humankind is an essentially Christian drive.
In theology, the Trinity is held to be God within God, Christ within the Father, or higher humanities within the higher ethical structure of the Torah; making the union between Father & Son a union between the
most high & the most high. The Holy Spirit the means of communication for both.
Down here on earth, where we all have to justify our existence in some practical manner, the Triune Constitutions are a power sharing agreement between the body judicial, the body religious, & the body politic. The body judicial attends to the ethical structure of the society, the body religious attends to humanities, the body politic attends to the practicalities. In sum… the Triune Constitutions are a complete team set; one rooted in the Triune ethos of the gifting off the most high..
Put 100 people in a room, ask who is their highest authority; 33 will tell you the law & the courts, 33 will say God & the church, 33 will say the political process. In sum, each specialty of Trinity is underwritten by its own dedicated minority which is constantly there. (Christianity talks about the constancy of Trinity) As each minority is reliable & constant, each is held sovereign over its own dominions, which permits independent & autonomous development in each of the three specialties. As 33% is not a mandate to govern, none can form a stand alone government, but must reach Constitutional power sharing agreements with each other, within the common body of the one society.
Three independently sanctified Godheads are important. To deal with just one, rule of law; the body judicial is very secure when standing on its own independently sanctified rock. From this security it administers the law even-handedly. In non Triune societies the body judicial seems to stand on quick sand rather than rock. (Judges are an honorable & respected office. They have no liking for sinking in quicksand particularly if there is an open sewer at the bottom of the pit) Lacking an independently sanctified rock to stand on, there is no foundation for judicial independence. In consequence, the courts security depends on its political patron & the courts too readily become little more than a contract gang enforcer for the current political incumbent. An insecure judicial system cannot uphold the law even handedly, so fluctuates back & forth between over-indulgence (corruption) to over reaction (despotism) Within such totalitarian systems the other two bodies can be equally insecure.
Trinity is a power, in human hands all power corrupts. Those who say Triune administrations have never been perfect & have committed many wrongs are correct. Yet because power is shared between three Godheads, Triune systems place limits on corruption. In consequence, Triune administrations are always part corrupted but can never be absolutely corrupted. Compare this with the single authority of a traditional feudal ethos or Islam’s oneness of God. By concentrating all power into the hands of a single earthly authority, these can be, & often are absolutely corrupted. Thus when we talk about the gifting of the most high, we cannot use an unattainable human perfection to measure success or failure; but rather, use a relativities measure of comparison to the other systems available which are even more imperfect. Even if our choice is only between two evils, at least take the lesser off the two evils. Modern academics who are uncomfortable with the old fashioned ethos of the gifting of civilization, needs consider that.
Lastly… Trinity lends itself to different configurations.
The Catholic Constitutions exist to give the gift of a higher faith to humankind.
The Westminster Constitution exists to give the gift of a higher law to humankind.
Protestant Constitutions (
We needs note the obvious differences between them, while noting that all three are driven by the same Christian ethos of a higher gifting.
The Torah, the law of the most high God, is the highest ethical base ever received by man. Christ, Son of the most high God who gave the Torah (& Son off that God specifically) is the highest humanities ever received by man. While both have been subject to fluctuating fortunes throughout history, Judaism & Christianity have always had their centrality in the gifting of the most high to all humankind. We needs note both are a set of living principles which adapt to changes in development & circumstance, rather than a set of non-pliable fixed edicts.
Ken Maynard e-mail… communichristi@gmail.com
Link to home-page… http://www.communichristi.org.nz
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