To reiterate by way of summary, then, all of Scripture is God’s speaking, or His communicating to man. Therefore, if we’re going to honor and respect God’s revelation on its own terms—i.e., as communication—we must seek to understand it as we would aim to understand any other ...
Interestingly enough it boils down to the same issue: a desire to either support, or remove support for the long ages needed for the bang bang and neo-Darwinian evolution. With regard to how to understand the serpent, a statement made by a Christian blogger3 who supports evolution and thus...
But I do think it’s important to understand our philosophies historically and even understand ourselves as belonging rationally to a tradition, and I think there is a great deal to be found in premodern traditions that is lacking in more modern ones (such as Marxism). I am willing to ...
Whether you decide to participate in these projects or not, I encourage you to study tarot as a means of engaging in the quest for self-knowledge through symbolic inquiry. In many ways we, as a society addicted to technological notions, have lost the ability to understand the primacy of ...
tempting to understand the transience of all earthly ventures, even intellectual exercises, in perfecting rhetorical skill; for language is a vivid instance of the temporality of worldly affairs. “Our speech,” he says in book 4.10, is “accomplished by signs emitting a sound [per signa so...
As I made my report to the stake high council at the end of my mission, I realized for one hyper-aware moment that not a single person in the room could actually understand what those two years had been for me—what I had gone through, what I had felt, what I had seen—no matter...
Transgressing disciplinary boundaries ... [is] a subversive undertaking since it is likely to violate the sanctuaries of accepted ways of perceiving. Among the most fortified boundaries have been those between the natural sciences and the humanities.-- Valerie Greenberg,Transgressive Readings(1990, 1)...