tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post115437315236439304..comments2023-11-02T07:00:12.603-04:00Comments on just an apprentice: The Sociology of ProtestantismBrian Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10499619375897729458noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post-1154594978627008192006-08-03T04:49:00.000-04:002006-08-03T04:49:00.000-04:00I confess, I am not sure how to answer your many q...I confess, I am not sure how to answer your many questions . . . but I have been thinking. As of late, when I try to engage in philosophical analysis of my own views, I get caught. I recognize I live in two worlds and I frustrate myself because I cannot argue out of both at the same time; I have not yet developed the skill of connecting my acceptance of both and resolving their obvious Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post-1154518033341442842006-08-02T07:27:00.000-04:002006-08-02T07:27:00.000-04:00One last question... Since Jesus is such a keysto...One last question... Since Jesus is such a keystone to your hermeneutical lens...who or what do you look to to understand who Jesus is? What informs and shapes your beliefs about Jesus?<BR/><BR/>There are many diverse and mutually exclusive views even within the Christian community (both historical and contemporary) of who Jesus is and what he was about and what his life means for us. How do Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10499619375897729458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post-1154516958879019302006-08-02T07:09:00.000-04:002006-08-02T07:09:00.000-04:00Fascinating! You make so many good (and may I say...Fascinating! You make so many good (and may I say brilliant) points. Thanks for being such a great contributer to the conversation in this blog!<BR/><BR/>I would just make one observation. I like your holistic approach to revelation. I am resonant with the idea that Truth is revealed through many different sources, disciplines and experience. I would just observe, however, that you are usingBrian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10499619375897729458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post-1154486592056672562006-08-01T22:43:00.000-04:002006-08-01T22:43:00.000-04:00Wow - I laughed as my mind raced back through the ...Wow - I laughed as my mind raced back through the trail of philosophers you made - very interesting. You could keep going to the post-modernists who would say there is no longer "T" truth ... revelation is considered "local" truth ... where one can study the "sociology of knowledge . . . in other words, there is no longer the modernist subject of "I" because everyone is different, shaped by Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post-1154458255217409962006-08-01T14:50:00.000-04:002006-08-01T14:50:00.000-04:00dml,Thanks for your comments. Your distinction be...dml,<BR/>Thanks for your comments. Your distinction between the roles played by social and physical sciences is very helpful. <BR/><BR/>I think back to my class with Brinton Rutherford this past spring. He traced the philosophical and worldview developments Pre-Enlightenment through the Englightenment and beyond. I am not discounting the possibility that one can embrace both ways of knowing-Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10499619375897729458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9759410.post-1154447338788691852006-08-01T11:48:00.000-04:002006-08-01T11:48:00.000-04:00What a very succinct and helpful comparison - than...What a very succinct and helpful comparison - thank you! <BR/><BR/>Of course I wonder about this quote. "What sociology lacks, what every other science also lacks, is the possibility of grasping this revelation as the act of God revealing himself." p. 10).<BR/><BR/>It reminds me about what you said about your Spanish students who "believed in science." I was not trying to be philosophical. In Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com