Why do some people associate sincerity with raising hands or hand clapping, while others associate it with kneeling or pregnant silence? Why do so many churches resist confessing sin or lamenting brokenness “because sincerity on these matters can’t be forced,” while singing demanding songs of extravagant praise without a similar concern? … Why do so […]
Bernard Lonergan on Community A community is not just a number of men within a geographical frontier. It is an achievement of common meaning, and there are kinds and degrees of achievement. Common meaning is potential when there is a common field of experience, and to withdraw from that common field is to get out […]
Know Thyself… Am I right to catch a pattern or convergence of logic between these three comments? Theologian Someone rightly said, “A person either has character or he invents a method.” I believe that and have been trying for years to trade method for character. from Hans Frei, Types of Christian Theology, Eds. Hunsinger and […]
Darren Sarisky on Webster-style theological theology …operating theologically entails that the discipline cannot frame an account of its own procedures without direct recourse to theological categories… This requires, first, that theologians grant God priority in their study, rather than allowing a philosophical account of the subjective conditions of the enquirer to determine their method. The […]
Gilbert Meilaender on when curiosity can be vicious Many possibilities may pique my curiosity — I may wonder how … human beings respond to experiments harmful to their bodies, or even to suffering; how the development of a fertilized egg could be stimulated to produce a monster rather than a normal human being; how to […]
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