Perhaps there are a few things that we can learn from them, even if not positively, we might as well learn not to make mistakes that they make.
I realized that many times, the "untrained" theologians like us will also interpret the bible as if the author is dead and the meaning is only to the fancies of the readers. Our Roman Catholic friends like to say of us Protestants, We have ONE Pope, you have many popes. It's one danger we have to guard against.
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· 4 years ago
On the contrary,I do somewhat agree that an author does improvise or write thoughts that were actually originally of others' thoughts. Perhaps, let us view this in another light. IMHO, the knowledge that is imparted unto us are usually of another person's mind and thoughts and we receive such knowledge through books, thesis etc. It is somewhat difficult to determine the point of origin from an author and another who "improvised his ideas and wrote them as his own" (or perhaps,from readers like us , for that matter) because when we find ourselves agreeing to what the original author said, it may be in actual fact that we may have thought of that idea first; but the author somehow; was able to articulate that idea before us. But that does not necesarrily make the authors who improvised less creative nor is he more dead than the genius writer who was able to come up with his own ideas.The art of improvisation would probably strengthen the ideas even more; as one does not simply use just about anybody's ideas without weighing its relevance and feasibility. Of course, the same cannot be said about the Word of God, for the writers have been given a revelation by the Author, a divine inspiration that is to be called His own. Therfore, when it comes to the Bible; rest assured that we have an original Author who has crafted every knowledge that He has chosen to reveal to Man, through Man- thus came our Bible. On the other hand, I do wonder what would an author's mind be, without Language- the medium that conveys the very message that the author has for us. I would then say, that language does not take over an author's works; nor does it make him dead. Language is both water- the elixir of LIFE and also wine- the name by how some of us would call "liquid gold". Perhaps, if we learn to see that nothing is not of GOd's, then it wouldn't have mattered to us if we do not own anything or if we are nothing at all. Apologies for the bits and pieces, here and there. "Random thoughts", these are- and I do believe they are not original either.:)
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· 4 years ago
postmodernism's de-emphasis on institution may be viewed as a positive concept to enhance the communal and organic movement of the society.
Perhaps it's time also we take a second glance at those laws and boundaries that we have taken for granted and reexamined them again, as Chritians, in the light of the Scripture. This is returning to the first square, and there perhaps we may find after all a deinstitutionalized ekklesia. :)
just some thoughts for you to consider and pursue.
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Aronil
· 4 years ago
Hmm, the post-modernism, challenges instutions, perhaps you coudl look at it in the sense that it si saying also not to conform to the ways of the world, which can be applied to chrisitian principles.
"Do not conform to the standards od the world, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind, only then will you know God's will for you." ...I'm paraphrasing here.
If i wer to look at it in that light the perhaps you can say i'm no longer being anti-post, but rather being objective of it. To see it's shortcomings and it's more appealing side.
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I realized that many times, the "untrained" theologians like us will also interpret the bible as if the author is dead and the meaning is only to the fancies of the readers. Our Roman Catholic friends like to say of us Protestants, We have ONE Pope, you have many popes. It's one danger we have to guard against.
pos-laju
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Perhaps it's time also we take a second glance at those laws and boundaries that we have taken for granted and reexamined them again, as Chritians, in the light of the Scripture. This is returning to the first square, and there perhaps we may find after all a deinstitutionalized ekklesia. :)
just some thoughts for you to consider and pursue.
pos-sible
"Do not conform to the standards od the world, but be transformed in the renewing of your mind, only then will you know God's will for you." ...I'm paraphrasing here.
If i wer to look at it in that light the perhaps you can say i'm no longer being anti-post, but rather being objective of it. To see it's shortcomings and it's more appealing side.
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