Yeah, but remember that old guy told us this is the way…
Early Church Fathers offer some direction if not renewal of Christian thinking. It’s always a good time to return to our first love. Again, the battle today may feel new, but the old original tactics are the same.
Augustine for example was aware that the ‘technologies of reason’, being tools, were created as an attempt to reconcile the separation of reason and faith. Augustine addresses being made one in the Divine. Clearly this involved the mind. According to McCullough, Augustine offered ideas how to better renew the mind. He recognized the quagmire of human reason apart from faith, i.e. the mind focused on material reality over the spiritual reality, or God. (Augustine, AD400. IX.2.13). This meant continued renewal in the mind was needed. For Augustine this is achieved by focusing on the spiritual, non-created truths. A goal of Augustine was to better understand, with the renewing help of the ‘technologies of reason’, what it means to create, in the mind,. By this he meant to think ‘Christianly’. He was seeking to be, by faith, renewed and transformed in the image of God, and to live, thinking Christ. (McCullough 2002, 17).
