According to Gadamer ( Truth and Method (Continuum Impacts) , 405), philosophy essentially began with a nominalist move. The “earliest” view saw an “intimate unity of word and thing,” so intimate that the “true name was considered to be part of the bearer of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Weinsheimer ( Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method ,. p. 255 ) spells out the ontological import of Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy: “Things make themselves understood in their interpretation - that is, in language that speaks to us here and now . . . . Being . . . . Continue Reading »
Weinsheimer (p. 241) on Gadamer on Nicholas of Cusa: “By allying the creativity of language to the divine creativity that speaks the world into being, Nicholas of Cusa is able to conceive of the multiplicity of human locutions and languages positively. He understands them not merely as mental . . . . Continue Reading »
Joel Weinsheimer ( Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A Reading of Truth and Method , p. 238) offers this superb summary of Gadamer’s preference for the logic of metaphor over the logic of deduction or induction: “If thought is indivisible from language, then thought is more fundamentally . . . . Continue Reading »
Genesis 49:12: He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. As Pastor Sumpter has emphasized, we live in a world of deception, seduction, and lies, of hype and hypocrisy. Men have been liars since Adam’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew 28:18-20: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even to the end of the age. Baptism is a naming ceremony. . . . . Continue Reading »
When Adam sinned, he abandoned his Father to become a child of the devil, the father of lies. Ever since, the history of humanity has been a history of lies. “All men are liars, the Psalmist says. Paul agrees: “Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they keep deceiving. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The scene that greets John when the fifth seal is broken is at the altar, and the saints are “underneath the altar.” When John ascended to heaven in the Spirit, he did not see an altar in the heavenly sanctuary. There was a throne (ark) and a lampstand and a sea, but no table and no . . . . Continue Reading »
Gadamer’s notion that things “come into language” can sound rather abstract and abstruse. I think it’s a powerful idea. It’s powerful first because, as Gadamer is at pains to demonstrate, it means that language is not a screen that keeps us from access to the world (as . . . . Continue Reading »
Insofar as anything appears to us, it radiates itself. Insofar as it radiates itself, it is light. Insofar as it is light, it is the glory and beauty of God. We need to wear dark glasses all the time so as not to be blinded by the light that blazes from everything. Dark glasses, or eyes as bright . . . . Continue Reading »
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