The Importance of Decontextualization

The closer that you look, the more of life can be seen to be not straightforwardly ideological or political. Often ideologies and politics can be substituting for things that are missing elsewhere. The more that we re contextlize, break down to size and bound things, the more that idiology and politics lose their pull and their explanatory power. They may more be symptoms of the breakdown of our context than the causes of all our problems. And in the christian faith is not politically quietest. It speaks to governments, and it speaks to authorities and tells them things that they need to do. However, christians are called to submit even to bad authorities, and to aspire to lead a