my interests, I am subtle about them

[hermionesviolin]

I ate lunch outside today and started reading Ian Barbour's When Science Meets Religion. Jeff V. (of FCS) is doing this book for the pilot of the "Eggheads" group. I am unexcited about the topic, but I am easily persuaded to show up and discuss texts with people, so I ILLed myself a copy of the book

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[sk8eeyore]

The whole "the Word was given to a particular people in a particular socio-historical moment and so it is culturally conditioned and doesn't literally apply to everyone through all time and space" is something that today fundamentalists dislike progressives saying, but hey look, not actually an invention of twentieth-century liberals.

I'm not sure how this follows from the excerpt you quoted above? Which, I have to say, appears to use a super-selective and simplistic quoting of the Fathers and medievals.

(My husband teaches pre-modern biblical interpretation for a living [and in fact is probably lecturing on the medieval "senses of Scripture" as I type], so the use of the word "literal" sets off alarm bells for me.)

[hermionesviolin]

I meant it re: On astronomical questions, he said, the writers of the Bible had to "accommodate themselves to the capacity of the common people" by using "the common mode of speech" of their times.

... And that is apparently all I have the brainpower for right now.

[wisdomeagle]

I read that book in college for a class called Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning.

[marginaliana]

I am easily persuaded to show up and discuss texts with people

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