Tag: experience
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Imagined Shared Experience
Our pastor in her sermon Sunday shared the observation that “this has been the Lentiest Lent we have ever Lented.” But just as Lent differs for different people, so people are having vastly different experiences of these separated, staying at home for the sake of the pandemic times. The connections we maintain these days –…
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Real Life and Canonical Pseudepigrapha
Some of the best minds in biblical studies have engaged with the problem of “canonical pseudepigrapha.” “Canonical pseudepigrapha” are canonical scriptures – books of the Bible – that seem, at least possibly, to have been written by someone other than the named author. 2 Peter is one of the prime candidates for being considered “canonical…
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Greatest Hits of Aesthetics?
Kul-Want, Christopher and Piero. Introducing Aesthetics: A Graphic Guide. Icon Books, 2012. [An Installment of the “Read Me” Project.] The problems with aesthetics begin with spelling and pronunciation. In my experience, a lot of people incline to calling it ascetics. I took some courses on aesthetics once, and I usually think I like it, but…
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Noticing Social Constructionism
Social constructionism is on my mind. In part because I’m working on the class that starts in May. I’ve learned from experience that it helps to explain, right from the start, that I come at things from a social constructionist point of view. College freshmen don’t necessarily share that perspective. And because I’ve learned recently…
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Thinking about Revelation
We will be thinking about the concept of “revelation” in class this morning. It’s so foreign to most people these days that it’s hard to get students to see that there has ever been a significant conflict between revealed and empirical truth – despite the existence of the Creation Museum, etc.
Matters of Interpretation 