Tag: postmodernism
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Ontology Schmontology
I get annoyed when people start talking about Ontology! How Things Are. In their Very Being. I got annoyed in school when Heidegger did it. I got annoyed in school when my office mate who was “a Phenomenologist” did it. And I get annoyed these days when people on the internet do it, like pastors…
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Just Because You’re Cynical Doesn’t Mean People Aren’t Self-Interested
What does it mean that I disagree with this book enough to laugh out loud and spill my coffee? …
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Postmodern Dialectics for Bible Study
Westphal, Merold. Whose Community? Which Interpretation? Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church. The Church in Postmodern Culture, James K.A. Smith, Series Editor. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] This marvelous book by Merold Westphal ended up on the “Read Me” shelf because it was cited in a paper I read…