When we say we forgive, do we mean we are forgiving a person or forgiving something a person did? Jaques Derrida used this question to describe what he meant when he talked about forgiving the unforgettable. He was speaking in post-Apartheid South Africa.… Continue reading
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Should females be formed by their association with males? It is not uncommon to hear certain discussions of gender roles and relationships follow ideologically from the reference to human origins in Genesis, “She will be called a woman because from a man she was taken.”… Continue reading
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Few instances offered such a poignant illustration of God-talk at odds in a local Christian community of faith. The pastor listened intently at the way theology was unwittingly being discussed in terms of retrospect and prospect.
Theology done in retrospect occurs when we assign meaning to a series of … Continue reading
Read MoreI began reading Kallenberg‘s Ethics As Grammar last week at the encouragement of David Fitch. My Skeptic friend is the impetus in my interest in Wittgenstein. So I open my Google Reader this morning and find Ernest decides that his form of life requires a new grammar. … Continue reading
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Words, Meaning, Context, and the Religious – Stepchild Offers a Take
Over at Missions Misunderstood, Stepchild weighs in on the controversy over Driscoll and words. Worth a read, especially in light of the recent attempts by some to press the SBC to censure anyone friendly to the Mars Hill pastor.… Continue reading
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