I’ve been thinking about how a Christian evolves intellectually, and the unexpected turns in the journey. I’ve sketched out these levels of development according to my own experience and what I have seen in others.
Pre-critical naivete. This is where folk theology swells out of a two-dimensional view of the biblical literature, unimpeded by an awareness [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Naive All Over Again?
Posted in Hermeneutics, Uncategorized, tagged apologetics, exegesis, hermeneutic, post-critical naivete, second naivete on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Disingenuous Religious Practice
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A WordPress neighbor wrote briefly about, as I’ll frame it, the compatibility of religion and biblical studies. Some of the responses are quite predictable, but the encouraging part is the openness. Whereas I wonder if at church on Sundays we are not, to some extent or another, being disingenuous. One can go through the same [...]
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