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This was often what happened to sutras, especially those like the Lankavatara that required a teacher to reveal their meaning.
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
We were to read Thomas Hobbes in the first seminar I attended. Strauss began without further ado to say that we would read only the first two parts of the Leviathan, that this was "disgraceful" but that we would have our hands full doing justice to even that much. After that, he turned unceremoniously to some introductory remarks.
The first
In the modern world of theology and biblical studies, scholars began believing that they had to establish first the ancient “meaning” of the text and only after that ask what doctrine, theology, or ethics modern Christians should derive from those ancient texts today.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Reden und Lehren kommen dem Meister zu, Schweigen und Hören dem Jünger. BENEDIKT VON NURSIA32 Einmal im Jahr ziehe ich mich für ein paar Tage in ein Kloster zurück. Ich reserviere Zeit, um sie alleine mit Gott zu verbringen.
Jörg Ahlbrecht • Dem Leben Flügel geben: Die Kraft von geistlichen Übungen im Alltag (Edition Aufatmen) (German Edition)
The truth, then, insofar as it can be found—the solution to the problem, insofar as that is available to us—consists rather in the ordered discussion itself than in any set of propositions or assertions about it. Thus, in order to present this truth to our minds—and to the minds of others—we have to do more than merely ask and answer the questions.
... See moreMortimer J. Adler • How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)
to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity! Moving forward to the twentieth
Stephen Witmer • A Big Gospel in Small Places: Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters
“happening” (arriver) without ever quite “arriving” at a final, fixed, and finished destination. We cannot simply “derive” (dériver) direct instruction from it, but we must instead allow it a certain drift or free play (dérive), which allows that tradition to be creative and reinvent itself so that it can be, as Augustine said of God, ever ancient
... See moreJohn D. Caputo • What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
My point is that the genre itself is the problem. As long as Christian scholars insist that they are simply “describing” the theology that is really “in” the text itself, and they arrive at their conclusions using historical criticism, as long as the “meaning” they claim to “find” in the text is supposed to be also what the ancient author
... See moreDale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Dionysios vergleicht diesen Prozess mit dem in 2. Mose 20,21 berichteten Ereignis: Nach dem Aufstieg auf den Gottesberg wird Moses von einer dunklen Wolke umhüllt.