Liberals, Labels, and Language Games: An Attempt Better to Respond to Bo Sanders
Last week Bo Sanders, over at Homebrewed Christianity, responded to an assertion (to which he did not link publicly, but that’s not entirely relevant to what I’m assaying here) that…
News for the Fall Semester
We’ve got a couple big announcements this afternoon for our Christian Humanist Podcast listeners. First, we’ve got a guest host to help keep Michial and Nathan in line while David…
Millennials in General?
Rachel Held Evans, “Why Millennials are Leaving the Church” (CNN Belief Blog) Folks who have been along for the ride will know that sometimes I find Rachel Held Evans insightful,…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 13: The Development of the Concept of Language in the History of Western Thought (405-438)
You can generally count on me to look for the historical conditions that surround anything interesting, so Gadamer’s section of Truth and Method on the concept of language immediately pleased…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #107: Medieval 101
General Introduction – A busy summer – How we spent our summer vacations – Three big announcements The Middle Ages and Antiquity – The Decline and Fall of the Roman…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 12: Language as the Medium of Hermeneutic Experience (383-405)
Conversation is a funny thing; though we sometimes speak of the participants in a conversation “directing it,” in fact the conversation seems to direct itself, seems to be something experienced…
A Brief Announcement
The Christian Humanist Podcast is in the process of migrating to a new web host. In the next few days, you might not be able to download podcast episodes. Fear…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 11: Analysis of Historically Effected Consciousness (341-379)
The problem with which the previous section (307-341) of Truth and Method ends is truly compelling, if one breaks down the problem as a (simplified) syllogism: Hermeneutics, as a practice,…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 10: The Recovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutic Problem (307-341)
Once upon a time, hermeneutics conceived of understanding as involving two processes: understanding and interpretation, to which Pietism added a third, application. The great advance of the Romantics is…
A Collage of a Pastorate: A Review of Trinitarian Letters for SpeakEasy Bloggers
Trinitarian Letters: Your Adoption and Inclusion in the Life of God by Paul Kurts. 232 pp. West Bow Press. $19.99. Some books convince with well-shaped arguments, and others move the…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 9: The Elevation of the Historicity of Understanding (265-307)
With the brief history of hermeneutical thinking in the book, Gadamer turns in this section of Truth and Method to constructing a hermeneutics that takes seriously the thrown-and-projected nature of…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 8: Overcoming the Epistemological Problem (242-264)
Husserl brought the entire notion of the given—so important for German idealism—into question; in so doing, he moved beyond Dilthey, at least to a certain extent. In fact, an…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 7: Dilthey's Entanglement in the Aporias of Historicism (218-241)
The section of Truth and Method that contains this chapter is called “Historical Preparations,” and one of the oddities of blogging about it is that I’m writing about an entire…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 6: The Questionableness of Romantic Hermeneutics (173-218)
In this section, Gadamer attempts to undermine Romantic hermeneutics; to do so, he will retrace Wilhelm Dilthey’s steps with different goals than the ones that Dilthey had. Hermeneutics…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 5: Aesthetic and Hermeneutic Consequences (134-169)
When Michial and I read Being and Time back in 2009, the best thing about that book was that, through careful phenomenological examination, Heidegger gave me occasion to think carefully…