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    A Wholistic Theology: The Both/And: The Best View of Objective

    Reality

    By

    R. Alan Woods
    San Diego: Rhema Rising Press
    Copyright 2009

    Why is theology important? Well-defined questions more nearly always produce


    the most useful answers. I propose that a better question could be asked: What "kind" of
    theology is important. In the context of the history of the Vineyard I understand that
    "experiential theology" or real theology ("the attitude which maintains that this kind of
    theology can only be developed by men who know these realities from personal
    experience"- Morton Kelsey in his work, Encounter With God: A Theology of Christian
    Experience) was and is the desperately needed counter-balance to the "intellectual
    theology" born out of the philosophy of knowing and knowledge developed by Aristotle
    and promoted within the "Church" by Thomas Aquinas and further ensconced by the
    worldview produced by Newton's understanding of the material universe. Plato would
    have been startled and amazed by such a one-sided worldview where Nature is the only
    experiential reality! Where's the Super Nature? What place has the Archetype? Where the
    dreams, visions, and auditions just a "figment" of man's imagination? Was sixty-five
    years of pioneering work by Carl Jung that produced real and tangible results in the
    healing and wholeness of human beings’ psyches and bodies for naught? Thank God for
    Jesus of Nazareth! The Numinous made Matter! The God-man. What comes to my mind
    and memory here is something I remember John Wimber say, "Just be naturally
    supernatural when you're doing the ‘Stuff’." Both economies/realities are operationally
    co-existent. As C. S. Lewis has said, "When men adhere to one side of a paradoxical truth
    and ignore the other, then they go into error." It is the both/and, not the either/or mentality
    that gives us a view of "objective reality".

    . I'm quite sure our call in the Vineyard to "cultural'" relevancy is predicated upon
    Paul's statement implying that we be all things to all men so that we may win some to
    Christ. Paul learned quickly through trial and error that men were more likely to be won
    to Christ when they had a direct, powerful (dunamis) numinous experience with God. In
    other words he failed in Athens when he used just the intellectual theological approach! It
    seems to me that regardless of the cultural context in which God makes direct contact
    with men, it is of more importance that these men have a framework or worldview as it
    were in which to know that it is possible. In Christ, we as Christians become neither Jew
    nor Greek nor anything else other than a “new creature” in Christ Jesus that produces or
    manifests the complementary new culture of Christian community (I refer you to Robert
    Banks work, “Paul’s’ Idea of Community” as a general theoretical orientation to my

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    meaning here). Paul was adamant about keeping the Gospel pure as it was delivered to
    him by Christ. In so far as it was possible within that framework, Paul became all things
    to all men. Once they became "enlightened" or "En-Godded" (a word used often by
    Leanne Payne, "Listening Prayer"), they were reoriented to a new reality and a lifestyle
    reflected in Christian community as their newly acquired identity as a unique cultural
    base.

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