"Fair is what we see, Fairer what we have perceived, Fairest what is still in veil."
-- Nicolas Steno, in a quote that sounds as if it were taken right from Chesterton were it not written centuries earlier.
"Fair is what we see, Fairer what we have perceived, Fairest what is still in veil."
-- Nicolas Steno, in a quote that sounds as if it were taken right from Chesterton were it not written centuries earlier.
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I continue to think of the growing cold of faith. was there something that triggered the change? was there an event, a person, or was it higher education-boy i've seen that many times. even if you find it difficult, fight to recapture the passion of your youthful zeal-it's worth it! peace
I don't know if it was one thing. Mark 9:1 started a hermeneutical journey for me that completely changed how I read the Bible. Less Origen, more... well... I don't know. But less Origen-like. Taking a class entitled "Christology" in college also took me down the more academic path.
Mark 9:1 ? hm... i take it by the course title you attended a religious institution, was it a "liberal"
institution? it's also interesting your talk of reformed theology and your disagreements with it. then you speak well of n.t. wright a liturgical bishop, not that these are related. just think of your lost passion. - peace
It was religious and actually very conservative. I just mention the class because it made me aware of a whole realm of perspectives that I didn't know existed. You mention Wright and it's in that class where I first heard of him. Perhaps some of the change in me came about as a result of shallowness I perceived in the "personal relationship" with Jesus thinking and culture that I had grown up with.
The one who is going to associate intimately with god must go beyond all that is visiable and (lifting up his own mind, as to the mountaintop, to the invisible and incomprehensible) believe that the divine is there where the understanding does not reach. -gregory of nyssa
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