Beyond Memetic Christianity

Matthew David Segall

and

Ashton K. Arnoldy

convened to discuss the recent surge of conversions among public intellectuals, artists, and celebrities. We seek to distinguish between a purely cultural or utilitarian “memetic Christianity” and a deeper ontological encounter with Christ as a cosmic being. We draw on thinkers including Rudolf Steiner, Owen Barfield, Charles Taylor, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to illuminate how the Incarnation not only reorients individual souls but also transforms the course of human history and earth evolution itself. In this view, Christ is neither reducible to a mere social technology nor confined to dogma; rather, Christ stands as the living source of moral renewal and cosmic intelligibility, inviting free human participation in a redemptive, ever-deepening communion.

We mention the following essays:

By

Jules Evans

:

The dark side of the Christian revival

By

Țara Isabella Burton

:

Believe for Your Own Sake, Not for "the West"

And Matt’s dialogue several weeks ago with

Brendan Graham Dempsey

:

Christ After Christianity: Metamodern Reconstructions of Religion