These findings support Relevance Theory's claim that meaning is inferred from the interaction of text and context. To the extent that the contextual knowledge evoked by the text for contemporary audiences differs from that evoked for the first audience, understanding is impaired. The Bible at ...
“The anticipation was that it would be a gospel record. It was a Sunday morning church service, especially convened, meaning that it was people from four different areas of the prison. They have different services on a Sunday for different denominations and also the different sections. But I...
God loves our community and our world with no limits. He sent His son Jesus to die on a cross and be raised from the grave to new life, so we can live a new kind of life. A life that has purpose and meaning. And He wants that for everyone! The more we understand His love, th...
“When you hear of another innocent black person getting killed by the police, you never get the full picture of them. The narrative always follows along the lines of – They were black, things escalated and they were killed by well-meaning white people. You don’t see or hear about the...
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But as much as you’d like to attribute meaning to this event, you know the world is contingent and life arises randomly. Plus, even if the universe were on your side, why would it take interest in you, tiny speck that you are? Chance just happened to be in your favor this time, ...
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done. ...
Fate bestows its reward on those who put themselves in the proper attitude to receive them. I want the people of America to be able to work less for the Government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. ...
The man’s posture can be also seen as a posture of argumentation; for a complete catalogue of hands and body gestures and their symbolic meaning in medieval manuscripts, see François Garnier, Le langage de l’image au Moyen Age. Signification et symbolique (Paris: Léopard d'or, 1982),...
(January 1965): 9–17; Raymond Cottrell, “The Sabbath in the New World,” inThe Sabbath in Scripture and History, ed. Kenneth A. Strand (Washington, DC: Review and Herald, 1982); Sigve Tonstad,The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day(Berrien Springs, Mich.: Andrews University Press, 2009)...