Why does the Western Church only tell HALF the Story of the Biblical Worldview? This is a brief series on Dualism in Western Culture and how Dualism characterises the Western Church. This Theological Dualism is based on something called 'The Sacred/Secular Divide. The Sacred/Secular Divide assumes everthing INSIDE the Church building is Sacred and everything OUTSIDE the building is Secular.

This basically separates the Creation Mandate from the Great Commission and therefore Mission becomes DISCONNECTED from ALL OF LIFE. This is why the Western Church has not impacted the culture, especially since the Enlightenment from 1700 right up until today in the 21st century.

Guys like Plato, Augustine & Thomas Aquinas are in crucial to this Dualism. Theological Dualism or the Sacred/Secular Divide only tells HALF the Story. It only has room for the Fall of man and Redemption, this means that Creation is deeply ignored and not applied to all of life, it means basically that Theological Dualism is NOT a truly Biblical Worldview of Creation, Fall, Redemption and Restoration.

Constantine, Pagan Rome and the Pagan Papacy as well as the Reformation are in the mix of the history of Dualism and its effects. Theological Dualism characterised by the professonalised Clergy (aka Pastor) and the Laity (the People) basically produces not Disciple making disciples but passive spectators who pay the professionalised 'clergy'/pastor.

This means that the people are not equipped with a truly Biblical Worldview, kept passive and so there is no substantial spreading of the salt into creation.
The Sacred/Secular Divide which really is the Greek Commission not the Great Commission, makes sure that the 'Church' stays nice and passive and reduced to attending a weekly meeting and conditioned into believing that this is 'Church'.

A massive cultural vaccum is created when the 'Church' surrenders the public arena instead of impact it. Western culture was largely forged and founded on the Biblical Worldview but has rejected it since the Enlightenment.

Neo Paganism has basically filled the vacuum with Statism, Totalitarianism, Transhumanism, Technocracy thrown in....and the idols de jour are Scientisim and Technocracy.