After completing the brief series on existentialism and hermeneutics (pt 1, pt 2, pt 3), I noticed a few related discussion around the way worth mentioning: 1. Rod Decker interacted with the reader-response approach which Richard Hays seemed to suggest in Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989). 2. Ken Schenck shares an… Continue Reading
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Existentialism and Hermeneutics (p3)
[Be sure to catch part 1 and part 2, first, and note Mike’s comment in p2 which highlights the importance of the terms we use when discussing philosophy]. The Strength of an Existential Approach to the Text? Sure…reading a text is an experience of sorts. Paul Ricoeur emphasized that reading a text leads to self-understanding. I… Continue Reading
Existentialism and Hermeneutics (p2)
Existentialism Existentialism is a philosophy which emphasizes subjective experience over against subjective rationality. I think of it as the view that all of life is like playing a tape (DVD or MP4 or your format of choice)–Someone has pushed play, and there are no other controls such as pause, rewind, or fast-forward. Thus, everything is NOW. Reality… Continue Reading
Existentialism and Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics? Hermeneutics asks such questions as, Where does the meaning of a text reside (if it has meaning at all)? How does one interpret a text? Does a text have a singular (or primary) meaning? What criteria are reasonable (if any) to determine whether or not a meaning is incorrect? Answers to such questions are… Continue Reading
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Me
If I had to choose a picture to summarize my life at this moment, it would be… Continue Reading
Parallels and a Third Partition
Problem: When I run Windows XP in Parallels, I cannot run a program (in my case, Logos) which is on a partition separate from the one from which Parallels runs. (I split my hard drive into 3 partitions: (1) mac osx; (2) extra stuff (FAT32); and (3) Windows XP. Logos is on “extra stuff” drive,… Continue Reading
Creating Three Partitions with Bootcamp
Starting from a single mac osx installation… Install Windows with Boot Camp Assistant Open the disk utility and shrink the mac osx partition leaving the amount of space you desire for your new partition. Create the new partition using disk utility (I used it via install disk in snow leopard). I formatted my new partition… Continue Reading
Logos 4 Review (part 2)
Logos 4 is fast…sort of I tested the speed of Logos 4 on the following two hardware configurations: Windows XP (running on Mac OSX w. Parallels)…1536MB DDR3 RAM devoted to XP, and 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 duo processor shared between XP and Mac OSX. Windows XP (running alone)…4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM, 2.53 GHz… Continue Reading
Blomberg on Haiti and God's Judgment
Craig Blomberg has an interesting post entitled “Is Haiti Being Judged?” I’ll give away his answer…no. But go read his explanation for yourself. Here’s an excerpt: But we don’t need any further detail to understand Jesus’ point. He is directly disputing the view that humans can usually discern a degree of wickedness greater among those… Continue Reading