Comments on: The Demonic in the Mundane http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/ Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: timgombis http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3694 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:34:11 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3694 Yes, you wonder how much of our culture, perhaps in a broader sense, is enslaved to pathways of death like consumerism, among other things, that the spectacular displays just aren’t necessary.

]]> By: Jaime http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3691 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:51:23 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3691 Tim,
I’ve been gone from the site for a couple weeks. (The beginning of a school year is always a busy time for teachers, as you know.) I just saw the Demonic in the Mundane #3, and decided to look for the earlier post.
I think so much of our culture is demonic that, as Patrick said, why ruin it through more overt things that wouldn’t even work in our cultural setting the way they would in other cultures.

]]> By: the devil is in the details « Jesus community http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3663 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:23:02 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3663 [...] to navigate, but also to maintain. Entitled, “The Demonic in the Mundane,” part one and [...]

]]> By: Ted M. Gossard http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3628 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:42:14 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3628 Glad you’re touching on this. Very good. And so important for us all.

]]> By: timgombis http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3613 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:09:01 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3613 Haven’t read it, Ryan. But I do think that because of secularization, we under-read or over-read the demonic. We don’t inhabit a worldview that easily integrates the physical and non-physical.

]]> By: Tony M http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3610 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:47:57 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3610 I’m looking forward to this series. I’ve heard so many varying, and often blatantly contradictory assessments of this topic that quite frankly I’m not sure what I even think anymore on the issue. It would be nice to try and gather some clarity and bearing. No pressure of course. :-)

]]> By: timgombis http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3609 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:27:27 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3609 I don’t!

But I don’t think we have anything to fear from demons or the powers of darkness. If one was sitting there, hovering in the classroom, there’s no reason to fear on the part of those who are in Christ.

]]> By: Patrick http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3607 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:42:40 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3607 Demons wouldn’t act like how the man in the graveyard acted in the Gospels here because we post enlightenment, know it all westerners would be freaked out and not as easily used if they did.

I think the zeitgeist is evidence of plenty of demonic activity here myself as well as the other “mundane” areas.

]]> By: Andrew http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3600 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:39:57 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3600 Your anecdote about your student is amusing .. but how do you know she wasn’t speaking the truth?

]]> By: Ryan Clevenger http://timgombis.com/2012/09/14/the-demonic-in-the-mundane/#comment-3599 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:14:53 +0000 http://timgombis.com/?p=1492#comment-3599 Dr. Gombis, have you read Charles Taylor’s “A Secular Age”? I haven’t had the chance to go through it, but I have listened to some of his lectures which summarize it and I think he is on to something with his metanarrative of disenchantment as a way of explaining secularization (and thus, our contemporary inability to incorporate demonic activity in our modern worldview). Might be worth checking out if you haven’t already.

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