I’ll admit it: I’m a hermeneutics fanatic. Whenever I enter a bookstore, I head straight for the literary criticism section. There is something enthralling thumbing through Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, Edward Said’s postcolonial criticism of Jane Eyre‘s madwoman in the attic, and the overweight, almost 3,000 page, Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. I am fascinatedContinue reading “the people’s climate march and hermeneutics”
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radical theology and the lgbtqi+ commmunity (part one): the multivocal scripture
This will be one in a series of posts on LGBTQI+, theology, and Scripture. The rest of the series will be posted this week. Two minutes before I boarded the train the other morning to come back to Philadelphia, I was posed the question, “Do you think that the Bible is against homosexuality?” The questionContinue reading “radical theology and the lgbtqi+ commmunity (part one): the multivocal scripture”
hermeneutic of suspicion and climate change
Paul Ricoeur, twentieth century philosopher, developed a way of reading called the “hermeneutics of suspicion.” Simply put, it is the concept that the way we read and understand texts (not only things written, but also spoken) must be challenged through conscience efforts. This means when reading a text, we must understand that we live inContinue reading “hermeneutic of suspicion and climate change”
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