tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403232.post115285054588716503..comments2024-02-10T08:46:51.419-05:00Comments on Rude Armchair Theology: The Continuing Conversion of the Church (5)Mike Croghanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18099387827886541138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403232.post-1153245826889094782006-07-18T14:03:00.000-04:002006-07-18T14:03:00.000-04:00Hi Cori,Yes, yes, and yes (to your first paragraph...Hi Cori,<BR/><BR/>Yes, yes, and yes (to your first paragraph) - or such is my limited understanding! The point is not to avoid reduction - it's as inevitable as that which occurs in translation between languages (translating the Biblical greek words philos, eros, and agape all using the same English word, "love", for example). The point is to avoid idolizing our reductions and giving them the same weight as the gospel itself. I think we do that through humility, openness to other paradigms, and openness to revision, just as you say.<BR/><BR/>Peace,<BR/>MikeMike Croghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18099387827886541138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403232.post-1153208798317714972006-07-18T03:46:00.000-04:002006-07-18T03:46:00.000-04:00So how can we be un-reductionist? By allowing our ...So how can we be un-reductionist? By allowing our translation, interpretation, and understanding of the Bible to be constantly under revision? By being humble in the claims we make or claim the Bible makes? By trying to 'hear' the Bible from the perspective of other cultures or paradigms??? <BR/><BR/>This post helped me understand why so much of the way we preach the Bible often seems to foreign or even irrelevant to people in completely other paradigms and how it is possible to read it from so many different perspectives ...Corihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01118095971831927866noreply@blogger.com