Thursday, March 13, 2008

notes from a theological novice...

What direction does our thought move in… from God to us, or from us to God? Is all theology a human attempt at understanding God? Or do we have access to special revelation in a way that gives us access to God without our humanness, without reading ourselves into the nature of God? Does the particular contextual stance of particular theologies, like gender based theologies, admit that we can only approach God as ourselves? We had this same question in Biblical interpretation… is there true exegesis or is there only eisegesis? Is it possible to read the text as it is, bringing meaning out, or are we always reading meaning into the text?

my brain hurts. what do you think?

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