Week 1-Chapter 2- Barker

I found it interesting that Barker says modernism's preoccupation with the desire to fully understand and harness nature is akin to controlling nature itself, which in turn is an attempt to control humanity. I agree with Barker. I think this is representational of the arrogance that postmodern thinkers are reacting against when critiquing modernism and its claims. I am fascinated with this shift in ideas because I believe it offers so much to Christian spirituality. I also liked how Barker notes that an ordered Global Village is not what we have arrived at really. Instead the Global Village is typified by an increase in points of conflict and upheavel. I agree with this observation but cannot go so far as to say that the Global Village (as a one world culture) is not also a developing reality with many positive aspects.