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I have a feeling I might have played with this idea before and it's certainly not a new one, although the way it expressed itself in my mind tonight seemed to me to be fresh. We were doing a study on angels at the Imms' Bible Study (an excellent small group. Pryderi and I invented the Whip-on-Chip as an alternative to peanut butter and celery, much to everyone else's chagrin). Someone mentioned that in OT (and NT) times people were accustomed to witnessing supernatural occurrences. Okay, maybe not accustomed, because they certainly were alarmed by fiery angels and miraculous occurrences. But they were much less likely to explain them away by appealing to a reductionist, mechanical worldview.

Perhaps it wasn't just the worldview that was different in times past, but reality itself was of a different kind, a kind that permitted magical and supernatural occurrences to be integrated into everyday life. This entails that maybe the fabric of reality is a fluid thing with its changes in possibility and impossibility noted in paradigm shifts. Maybe.

I don't think this is just post-modernism (which is oh so passe) expressed once again. I think that maybe post-modernism has its focus on interpretation and the subject, and sometimes a denial of reality itself. Instead, the focus I'm suggesting stays firmly on reality, and interpretation and worldview are subordinate to that, but it's reality itself which is fluid.

What do you think?