The Paradigm Shift at a Glance -
(Father Matthew Fox, from The Reinvention of Work)
(Father Matthew Fox, from The Reinvention of Work)
| 1. Modern Era | 1. Postmodern Era | |||||||||||||
| 2. Industrial Revolution | 2. Environmental Revolution | |||||||||||||
| 3. Large-Scale Technologies | 3. Intermediate and Small Technologies | |||||||||||||
| 4. Enlightenment | 4. Ecological Era | |||||||||||||
| 5. Atoms Are Inert | 5. Atoms are patterns of relations | |||||||||||||
| 6. Earth is Inert | 6. Earth (Gaia) Lives | |||||||||||||
| 7. Things Are Soulless | 7. Things live by a principle of animation (soul) | |||||||||||||
| 8. Learn By Objectivity | 8. Learn by participation and Creativity | |||||||||||||
| 9. Outer Work | 9. Inner Work | |||||||||||||
| 10. Things Are Determined | 10. Chaos, Spontaneity, Freedom are everywhere in the universe | |||||||||||||
| 11. Universe as Machine | 11. Universe as Mystery | |||||||||||||
| 12. Laws of Universe are Eternal & Absolute | 12. Laws of Universe are habits that are evolving | |||||||||||||
| 13. God is Supreme Lawgiver | 13. God plays in the Universe | |||||||||||||
| 14. God is Out There (Theism) | 14. God is in all things and all things are in God (Pantheism) | |||||||||||||
| 15. God does not Exist (Atheism) | 15. God's presence is experienced by all (mysticism) | |||||||||||||
| 16. Anthropocentric | 16. Cosmological | |||||||||||||
| 17. Begins with Doubt | 17. Begins with Wonder | |||||||||||||
| 18. All reality and experiences are Secularized | 18. All reality and experience are sacred | |||||||||||||
| 19. Efficiency Counts | 19. Beauty counts and is a divine name | |||||||||||||
| 20. Looks to earth for its Resources | 20. Looks to the Earth for its sources | |||||||||||||
| 21. Rationality Reigns (No Myths) | 21. Big myths abound, including those of evil, of possible healing, | |||||||||||||
| and of sacred origins | ||||||||||||||
| 22. God Is Male | 22. God can be imaged as female as well as male, and in other ways too | |||||||||||||
| 23. Patriarchal, Hierarchical | 23. Partnership, Interconnection | |||||||||||||
| 24. Pursuit of Knowledge | 24. Pursuit of wisdom | |||||||||||||
| 25. Quest for the historical Jesus | 25. Quest for the Cosmic Christ | |||||||||||||
| 26. Sentimentalizing of Jesus in Jesusolatry | 26. Jesus is a prophet who liberates by interfering with injustice | |||||||||||||
| 27. The art of war machinery | 27. The arts of living fully | |||||||||||||
| 28. Dry | 28. Wet | |||||||||||||
| 29. Jobs (if you can get them) | 29. Work for all (relates to the great work of the universe) | |||||||||||||
| 30. The Universe is a machine,the worker serves the machine. | 30. The universe is a sacrament, the worker is a priest or a midwife to a | |||||||||||||
| a graced universe. | ||||||||||||||