Dualistic thinking refers to a way of thinking that sees things in binary or opposing terms, such as black and white, right and wrong, or good and bad. It simplifies complex ideas into two opposing categories, without considering the possibility of shades of gray or alternatives.
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Does this not
suggest dualistic thinking, that the divine and human, the spiritual and the physical have no intrinsic relationship?
We Christians are repenting of having succumbed to
dualistic thinking through the influence of Greek thought and, especially, in extreme form, the effects of Enlightenment thought on Protestantism.
If «Sunday School and Church» is the formative experience in a congregation, it is very likely that the people of God are being formed by a structure that
perpetuates dualistic thinking about Christian faith, about the work of Christians, the nature of the church, and the role of pastors.
The question of whether the biblical writers were
correcting dualistic thinking or introducing it has vexed interpreters of scripture in every era of church history.
Pastors and people — men and women — are robbed of new life in Christ by the ways in
which dualistic thinking impacts the life of a congregation.
Meaning, which requires expression through the narrative mode of consciousness, appears to
dualistic thinking as the concoction of our alienated subjectivity.
But we know life is paradoxical: yoga teaches us that life is never either / or (what we
call dualistic thinking); life is experienced as both / and.
The deepest divisions of our world have their philosophical roots just here — in
dualistic thinking.
Yes, they are somewhere that can not be found through faith, rather by abandoning
all dualistic thoughts.
In the past,
dualistic thinking about what it means to be a woman so strongly associated motherhood with women that childbearing seemed essential to spiritual wholeness.
Part of the problem is that
the dualistic thinking that radically separates human beings from the physical world is deeply ingrained.
A mythical version of
dualistic thinking may be found in what Paul Ricoeur calls the «myth of the exiled soul.
This is the kind of
dualistic thinking that is doomed to perpetuate conflict.
«That's
dualistic thinking; that got us exactly where we are.»