“Serious thought takes the world as it actually is. This is quite different from taking it as ‘serious’ thinkers do, locked up as they are in the back recesses of their brainy parts” (Writers to Read, p. 28).
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Theology That Bites Back
Does not the world “as it actually is” always imply an interpreter who is making judgments about that world? If so, and I do see it this way, are we not stuck within hermeneutics and interpretation of that world? I do not see a way around this even through argumentation and exploration. Though we do know more about how the world was created by God than Luther and the reformers, I would say that we do not necessarily have the right perspective about everything. It seems to me that we may not be able to know when our interpretations are… Read more »
Here’s a article by Doug that might be helpful: https://dougwils.com/s7-engaging-the-culture/ten-theses-on-postmodernism.html
I have read that article before, and though I repeated some of what Doug said in my response above, I still think the question of truth is trickier. How does God know something to be true? This is like the Euthyphro question but applied to epistemology: is it true because God sees it to be true, or does God see it to be true because it cannot be another way? Anyway, thank for the link!
You do not know exactly what you will do tomorrow. You do know exactly what you did yesterday, e.g., what you had for breakfast, lunch and dinner (if anything), etc. When you walk into a restaurant you have the option of ordering anything you want off the menu (or you could walk out and eat someplace else). The choice is yours. Once you have ordered, eaten, paid and left (you could skip paying, but that would be a sin), then that choice is in the past and cannot be changed. You know exactly what you got and how much of… Read more »