Last Post Thread

[Jaebius]

But was it done with grace and discipline??

Grace - check. Discipline - check. Me being last - check.

 

[crazyheart]

last

 

[Beloved]

Crazyheart . . . shouldn't you be watching the curling instead of playing in LAST?

 

[Redbaron]

Now, Beloved, we all know LAST is far more important than curling....

 

[BethAnne]

@Graeme Decarie I don't have a single-sized bed either.

 

[revjohn]

@Graeme Decarie I don't have a single-sized bed either.

TMI

 

[BethAnne]

 

[Beloved]

Good morning everyone - hope you all have a wonderful day, sorry you can't be in LAST.

 

[BethAnne]

Road conditions don't sound good and I'm delivering papers today. Hopefully the next blizzard holds off for a couple of days.

LAST

 

[Jaebius]

Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Happy day for eating rice cake soup with family and friends! Happy day for me to be last!

 

[Redbaron]

@Graeme Decarie I don't have a single-sized bed either.

Maybe she sleeps in a hammock?

 

[Beloved]

I think it is my turn to be LAST.

 

[paradox3]

Will take my place in LAST while thinking about BethAnne in her hammock.

 

[Jaebius]

Ain't nothin' wrong with a hammock. I enjoy a nice hammock sleep when a I'm visiting my mom in NB in the summertime. A hammock is so many things bb that most beds are not. Not only that - but I'm last.

 

[Jaebius]

Are we talking about Craig Gay's chapter in "The Act of Bible Reading"?

Yes - that's the one.

Have you read your way through the book? Was it a text when you were at seminary?

The course we've been reading it for is Missional Hermeneutics. We've been taking turns presenting the essays in pairs. One team teaches one of the essays in the morning - and then another team teaches one in the afternoon.

You might want to read the premise a little more closely.

Yes, Gay does advance the idea that proponents of certain theologies that insist scripture must be read in a certain way should be met with a healthy dollop of suspicion. He also begins by informing us that we all approach scripture through a sociological lense (so it isn't that some do and others don't--all do) and for that reason we should be suspicious of those who claim that they do not and we should invest time in trying to uncover the lense they actually apply to scripture and why.

Gay is advancing the notion of a hermeneutic of suspicion.

My job was to cover the second part of the essay in which Gay discusses ---

• how the theologies of liberation use Scripture to advance their ideologies
• how Scripture itself can be submitted to the sociology of knowledge
• how God will work through Scripture despite the biases of its interpreters.

It was a challenging read. My cohort enjoyed learning about it - though - and the professor seemed pleased with the way my friend and I presented it.

Who is Gay to suggest that such a hermeneutic advances us forward in the search of knowledge? (That's me turning the tables to make a point).

It's an excellent point revjohn. Turns out he's a professor at Regent College in Vancouver.

To be completely honest I find the hermeneutic of suspicion defeating to most interpreters and what they tend to find is not what is said in scripture or even what should have been said in scripture so much as what they wished were said in scripture.

That said, we do need to ask questions if we seek to gain understanding and sometimes those questions actually are, "what did these words mean to the ones who first heard them/" rather than what do I hear in these words today.

Apart from that I was making a joke at your expense. You are artfully suspicious of the motivations of others.

 

[revjohn]

Yes - that's the one.
Have you read your way through the book? Was it a text when you were at seminary?

No and no. It is a little after my time. I remember flipping through the book recently and reading Gay's chapter. I'm not a big fan of the Hermeneutic of Suspicion and I was interested to see if there was new thought going into it. Gay was not much of a help in tracing new development.

I was somewhat pleased by his acknowledgement that we can't escape from sociological thinking.

It's an excellent point revjohn. Turns out he's a professor at Regent College in Vancouver.

I know Regent. VST is about a block away from it. I spent many hours in their library even though it didn't have any dark and dusty corners to give off a monastic vibe.

I figured that he must be connected to Regent with other authors like Packer and Peterson contributing to the book.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I hope that's the LAST discussion of what sound enormously boring texts...

 

[Mendalla]

Not on here, Bette, though maybe they will at LAST move it to R&F.

 

[Jaebius]

Not on here, Bette, though maybe they will at LAST move it to R&F.

Should it have gone in R&F? It relates to school - not to church.

 

[Mendalla]

But it is about a seminary text so R&F is a better fit than, say, Pop & Chips. And that put me back in LAST.