“Theology is a language used by a specific group of people to make sense of their world.†– Rowan Williams, On Christian Theology “Theology . . . is a particular type of rhetorical art.†– Mark Wallace, Fragments of the Spirit “Across the broad spectrum of different academic settings and different cultures, across the even…
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“The symbol gives gives rise to thought.†– Paul Ricoeur “… if we can no longer live the great symbolisms of the sacred in accordance with original belief in them, we can … aim at a second naïveté in and through criticism. In short, it is by interpreting that we can hear again.†– Paul…
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“Dialogics is a method of thinking as a whole and a rejection of wroldviews that recognize the right of a higher consciousness to make decisions for lower ones, to transform persons into voiceless things.†– Iris M. Zavala “Dialogue here is not the threshold to action, it is the action itself. It is not a…
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"Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator" – John Dewey "The winged words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech" – John Dewey “Practical wisdom issues commands, since its end is what ought to be done or not to be done; but…
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“The first stones of the new world, however coarse or unpolished they may be, are more beautiful than the sunset of a world in agony, and its swan songs†– Antonio Gramsci â€The word, the word is a great thing.†– Fyodor Dostoevsky “Not only is utopia not ‘realizable’, but it could not be realized…
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"Nothing is absolutely dead: every meaning will have its homecoming festival." — Mikhail Bakhtin "It is quite possible to imagine and postulate a unified truth that requires a plurality of consciousnesses, one that cannot… be fitted into the bounds of a single consciousness, one that is, so to speak, by its very nature full of…
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“The Church must sound strange to the world if it is not to be dull†– Karl Barth “God may speak to us through Russian communism, a flute concerto, a blossoming shrub or a dead dog. We do well to listen to Him if He really does. . . . God may speak to us…