Apologies for the long delay in posting the last part of the paper. The end of January and all of February were pretty crazy, we moved into a new house and had to get as much done on that as possible before I started an intensive course (3 credits in 3 weekends!) through SCUPE in [...]
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Classic texts found communities, are sustained by them, and in turn sustain them, and interpretation is like a communal dialogue (or better, multilogue) which takes place between individuals within a community and among community.[1] The Bible specifically is the “classic text” of the church, and the church in turn is the community of its interpretation. [...] “Interpretive community” is a key concept in Stanley Fish’s writings on interpretation and criticism of texts. The concept of interpretive community is a strategy to engage the dilemma of interpretation in which the roles of “text” and “reader” struggle for the power to determine meaning. Faced with the reality that there are often as many [...] Thanks so much to all of you who have responded to our needs after the fire, either in comments, emails, or other ways. As part of beginning to get back into the swing of some kind of normal life, I am now going to begin writing articles for the blog as I had been before. [...] This is the third part of my paper. In this section I briefly explore the religious aspect of the state, as well as its “liturgies,” or the collective acts by which we are incorporated into the state’s imagination. The liturgies of the state are practices by which its imagination is generated and reproduced. This imagination as [...] This is the second part of my paper, “Interpretation and the Prophetic Imagination: The Church as Hermeneutic Community.” In this section I explore the concept of imagined community in relation to the modern nation-state, drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and William Cavanaugh. To illumine the concept of the imagined community, it is helpful to [...] The following is from my paper for my Theology of the Church course. This is the pre-edit draft, so go easy on any silly writing errors! I will probably post the whole thing in installments. If the business of the church is to celebrate and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus, whose first preached [...] note: this was originally published on my old site. In the last post in the series, I posted some general observations about the cultural context in which the Genesis 1 creation was composed. I contend that the Biblical creation story, as well as other parts of the primordial history (Genesis 1-11) were written to challenge the [...] I had to make a quick late-night trip to pick up something I’d forgotten, and as usual I had my car radio tuned in to the local NPR station. Since it was late at night, they were playing the news report from BBC World Service. I was more or less listening until a particular story [...] note: this was originally posted on the old site In this installment of the series, I will attempt to communicate a brief framework to aid us in understanding the historical and cultural context of the book of Genesis. In some ways the series is an attempt to formulate a more comprehensive statement of what I believe [...] Tags: better story, Bible, creation, Genesis, history, metanarrative, series |
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