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Day Three of “Through Advent with Isaiah” What happens when we read? How do we understand a text? We are such a literate culture that we take reading for granted; we really don’t know what it is like to live … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Isaiah 43.1-13
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Lenten Readings: Day 30
Zeal is Not Enough In today’s second reading from the Daily Office Lectionary Paul describes zealous Jews as still being ignorant of the righteousness of God, as they do not recognise Jesus as the Messiah. Of course, Paul was like … Continue reading
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Tagged Four-fold sense of scripture, Hermeneutics, Romans 10.1-13, Zeal
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Lenten Readings: Day 22
In Which I Am Confused By The Apostle Paul Today’s second reading from the Daily Office Lectionary is a strange one. Listen in: Rom 7.1–12 Do you not know, brothers and sisters—for I am speaking to those who know the … Continue reading
Lenten Readings: Day 14
How To Make It Hard To Understand Romans One of the reasons I wanted to do reflections in Lent on the second reading from the Daily Office Lectionary was because I saw that for most of the season it was … Continue reading
An Introduction to Levinas (Part Two)
The Gesture of Being 2. This dignity of an ultimate and royal discourse comes to Western philosophy by virtue of the rigorous coincidence between the thought in which philosophy stands and the reality in which this thought thinks.For thought, this … Continue reading
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Tagged God and Philosophy, Heidegger, Hermeneutics, Levinas
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Day Thirteen of An Advent Calendar: The Hermeneutics of עַלְמָה
Friday, December 9, 2016 Friday after the Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 7.10–25 2 Thessalonians 2.13—3.5 Luke 22.14–30 The text of the readings follows after the comments. The passage from Isaiah contains a well known verse, namely 7.14. In the … Continue reading
What is the Meaning of this Text? (Part of A Study on the Servant Songs of Isaiah, Session Two)
“What is the meaning of this passage?” There have been many ways of answering this question. Indeed, there is a whole science called Hermeneutics that looks at how to interpret things (check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics). Anglo-American Analytical philosophy is entirely about … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglican, Bible, Christianity, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Isaiah
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