11.29.08
Sola scriptura or tradition, too?
I’m still feeling my way back to a consideration of the notion of revealed religion. Sometimes as I immerse myself in something like this lecture, I realize how postmodern my insistence upon spirituality as an immediate experience has been. I begin to see how I, and so many boomer-age seekers, looked over and over again for a road-to-Damascus (or under-the-Bodhi-tree) experience in a meditation technique, or a pill or a pipe. It’s that old “give-it-to-me-now-and-according-to-my-specifications” mentality.
Of course, I still have major questions. When, say, a Hebrew prophet such as Isaiah or Malachai, or a Gospel author such as Mark, or even an apostolic letter-writer like Paul committed “the word of God” to parchment, how, specifically, did that person’s role as a conduit for said word work? Did they have some kind of wham-bam surrounded-by-light experience?
But I digress, which is easy to do for a question-filled seeker like me. Great lecture that sheds light on some important historical as well as theological matters.
MR. Dings said,
November 29, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Did you say you went to Wabash College?
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 29, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Class of 77.
MR. Dings said,
November 30, 2008 at 2:13 pm
You might wanna subscribe to their e-newsletter, if you do not know about this appealing resource:
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/result_browse.aspx?topic=648&pid=626
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 30, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Very cool resource. Thanks. I knew this center existed, but I’d never checked it out. It was started by Raymond Williams, who I had for a religion prof back in the day. World-class scholar and a fine man.