A Prayer

In my missional theology course, we had to offer a prayer of thanksgiving or repentance for the Enlightenment:


God, who turns death into life, you call us to metanoia: to turn. We confess that we do turn, but our turn is to the subject. We call for you to turn us.

Save us from our turn to the massive onslaught of empirical data that tells us it will all go to pieces in the end. We see the decay all around us. We pray that you will be the God who brings it all together in the end.

O, that you are the God who has turned the whole world upside down. In weakness strength, in sickness health, in death life.

You are the One who makes the life that has turned to death; yet you are the One who turns death into life, whose vector is parabolic; your descension brings forth ascension. In you the dead are raised.

God, we pray that you will turn us till in turning and turning, we turn round right.