Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 September 2013 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9  • Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113  • 1 Timothy 2:1-7  • Luke 16:1-13 Yes, it’s been a while since I wrote…

It’s not for myself but for my students, and my students to come, that I must speak out.  Questioning conventional wisdom in public is not something that makes a person…

As Gadamer brings Truth and Method to its finish, the qualification and critique of other systems of aesthetics and hermeneutics comes to a close and the book’s own positive project…

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 272 pp. Random House. $27.00. I’ll say this up front: New Testament Studies is a hard discipline.  Its difficulty comes…

Learn to Code 1: Does Everybody Really Need to Program? Learn to Code 2: The Many Reasons We Must Program (and the Few Why Not) It’s easy to forget, if…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…