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Posts tagged Stanley J. Grenz
The Primacy of a Lived Faith
Feb 24th
“Members of the next generation are often unimpressed by our verbal presentations of the gospel. What they want to see is a people who live out the gospel in wholesome, authentic, and healing relationships.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 3150-52 [↩]Scridb filter
The Church and New Cultural Forms
Feb 22nd
“Part of the Christian calling is to appraise any new eth os that shapes the culture in which God calls believers to live as his people. One goal of this task is to equip the church to articulate and embody the gospel in the context of that culture.” [1]
Notes:
A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) [...]
Kant’s Basis of Category and Nietzsche’s Response
Feb 22nd
“Nietzsche is not merely repeating what Kant had said a century earlier. Kant argued that the self constructs knowledge by means of transcendental categories derived from the mind, which he assumed to be structurally the same in all persons.persons. He believed that this sameness of structure — this shared human nature — provides the foundation [...]
The Violence of Thought
Feb 21st
“[We often] overlook the fact that no two things or occurrences are exactly the same. Consequently, rather than mediating genuine knowledge, our conceptualizing robs reality of its multiplicity and destroys the original richness and vitality of human experience.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657-59 [↩]Scridb filter
Nietzsche’s View of the World
Feb 19th
“Nietzsche’s view, the world is made up of fragments that are totally different from one another.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1657 [↩]Scridb filter
Subject-Object Dualism
Feb 18th
“[The] feature of Cartesianism that has received the most criticism is its inherent subject-object dualism. If the self is a thinking subject, then the self necessarily perceives every other kind of thing as an object. The resultant distinction between subject and object endows the subject with greater importance than the object. It sets the knowing [...]
Beings in the World
Feb 17th
“Heidegger contends that the human being is not primarily a thinking self, a subject that engages in cognitive acts; rather, we are above all else beings-in-the-world, enmeshed in social networks.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1602-3 [↩]Scridb filter
Descartes and the creation of the Body
Feb 16th
“But by focusing on the thinking self, Descartes relegates the body to a sphere outside of and apart from the thinking subject.”[1]
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A Primer on Postmodernism (Stanley J. Grenz) – Highlight Loc. 1586-87 | Added on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 07:11 PM [↩]Scridb filter
Readings from This Semester:
Dec 20th
Total Pages: 3834
Total Pages Read: 3047
Total Reading Percentage: 79%
I actually did most of my reading this semester. My TRP is hindered mostly by two source books which contain a great many more pages than were assigned. The only book that I really skimped on was Redeeming the Routines. I just did not have the time/gumption [...]
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