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Topical Guide: Created Order
Created Order Related Topics
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Order and Contemporary Issues
Biblical Foundations of Order
Theologies of Order
Moral Order
Discerning Moral Order
Created Order Cognates
Created Order in the Christian Tradition
Created Order in Classical Traditions
Disorder
Order and Freedom
Order and Postmodernism
Promoting Order
Order and the Natural World
Political and Social Orders
Economic Order
Order and Ecology
Order and Health
Order in the Arts and Literature
Created Order and Academic Practices
Created Order in the Disciplines
Political Disorder
Authoritarianism
Genocide
War and conflict
War in Ukraine
Economic Disorder
Business failure and bankruptcy
Collapse of supply chains
Debt crises
Economic collapse
Poverty
Psychological Disorder
Trauma
Ecological Disorder
Pollution
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Social Disorder
Bias
Corruption
Deficiencies to health and well-being
Discrimination
Hypocrisy
Moral Collapse
Slavery
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Social conflicts
Living with Disorder
Art exists to help us see the evils in things to which we have become desensitised
Living in a fallen world requires us to live with disorder and acknowledge its impact on those who have suffered
The acknowledgment of disorder is a prelude to the return of order
Truth is not obvious; our perception of truth is distorted by sin
Beneficial Disorder
A vibrant social order requires disturbance as an impetus to constructive change
Economic collapse led to the creation of bankruptcy laws and a new economic order
Jesus’ ministry brought disorder to the power structures and social status quo of his day
Languages are in continuous, creative flux and resist attempts to make them perfectly systematic
Prophetic critique brings disruption to established orders
The acknowledgment of disorder is a prelude to the return of order
Order and Freedom
Freedom is inherent in God’s moral law
Healthy accountability is a way of holding hierarchy and autonomy together
Postmodernism tends towards freedom (agency); previous ideologies tended towards order (structure)
The west prizes freedom over order; Confucian culture prizes the opposite
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Order, Freedom, and Creativity
Created order is compatible with creative freedom
Joy is the virtue that combines order and freedom in equilibrium
Music requires the combination of both order and freedom
Overemphasising creation’s rationality risks minimising the role of imagination
Trinitarian monotheism entails a created order that is dynamic and creative, not barren or sterile
Order and Postmodernism
A focus on order is counter to the postmodern zeitgeist
In postmodernism, the attempt to reason or appeal to order can be seen as a veiled quest for power
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Modernism's errors were overemphasising order and rationality
Order and postmodernism
Postmodernism has had much less of an impact within the natural sciences
Postmodernism's impact within the natural sciences: an alternate perspective
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