Day: August 6, 2021
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Shabbat shalom
Every real relation with a being or life in the world is exclusive. … It fills the heavens. Martin Buber, I and Thou, Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith, Scribner Classics, 2000 (1956), 79. Image: “Old New Synagogue,” Jiří Meitner / CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons
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Reflecting on Hebrews 11 1-3, 8-16
What meaning of “faith” makes the statement “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen” true? Can “faith” in this context possibly refer to a purely intellectual assent to an abstract proposition? Or does it need to mean something other or additional to that? This seems like the main question […]
Matters of Interpretation 