The Paradigm Shift at a Glance -
(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, & 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,                                                30. The universe is a sacrament, the

the worker serves the machine.                                                       worker is a priest or a midwife                                 

                                                                                                        to a graced universe.