The House of Christian Contrasts

Every category of Christian thought is comprised of contrasts. Some of these contrasts are in the form of opposites, while others take the form of correlaries, and still others are to be experienced as necessary consequences in the process of the Christian life. Jim Fowler constructs a Christian "house of contrasts" by noting the either/or contrasts of "diametric polarity," the both/and contrasts of "dialectic reciprocity," and the seen/unseen contrasts of "diaffectic process." The objective of this study is to promote an awareness of the contrasts implicit in all Christian thought, and thereby to broaden the horizons of our Christian thinking so that Christians might see and understand the many facets of what it means to think Christianly.