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Infinite Ignorance

07/17/09

Permalink 06:06:19 am, by dissidens Email , 317 words, 509 views   English (US)
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Infinite Ignorance

Your options are severely limited.

The sort of blather we read Monday will dissipate in the wind. Jamie Arpin-Ricci will go away and leave nothing for the archeologists but a celtic cross and a knotted cord, Doug Pagitt has already started to go away, Mark Scandrette doesn't have many more pomes [sic] in him, and he doesn't have what it takes to re-imagine anything workable. Shane Claiborne will vanish. David Hayward will certainly give up his doodles and his Trinitarian Pontifications.

This, for instance, will be forgotten:

Here we can dialog. For The Unknown is unknown to everyone. No one has special knowledge. We are all as infinitely ignorant as The Unknown is infinitely unknowable. And, The Unknown reveals and is received indiscriminately, crossing all borders, designations and divisions, accessible and available to everyone. It is the intersection of The Other with the world. Then, the truth, love and justice of the The Unknown is for every creature.

I'm not on drugs.

People will eventually move on and leave Dave to monologue in the rec room of the sanitarium, and all these open-source crackpots and assorted theological droolers will be replaced with even less persuasive Messiahs of the Unknowable.

Established religious institutions will continue to drop like snowflakes and they will try to redefine their essential purposes, but it will not help.

It will all be very tedious, and people will want something real. For those who still have an audience interested in the truth there will be the major task of building some dilapidated shelter against the storms.

Before you start on that, take a look at this. Pay no attention to the narrators; they don't know what they are talking about, and ABC has no clue either. Just take to heart the dilemma of the subjects of the film and consider the relationship between conscience and culture.

You've got some serious thinking ahead of you.

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1 Comment from: ¢¢ [Visitor] Email
I am most saddened by Ephram's evident love for truth. I love Ephram for his love, but I am saddened because I don't see this love among my own people.

Thank you for sharing this; it has strengthened me.
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2 Comment from: exlibris [Visitor] Email
I'm currently reading through Richard Muller's Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics. His writing style is a bit tedious and obtuse, but who am I to talk. Nevertheless, he gets his point across: The Reformers and the fountain heads of Reformed Orthodoxy (Luther, Zwingli, Calvin to Melancthon, Vermigli, Musculus), while not unaware of the problems contained in the task of the finite to comprehend the infinite, took their task very seriously. It seemed the only prudent thing to do in light of the Revelation that had been given.

Now, who are these other sophist clowns?
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3 Comment from: exlibris [Visitor] Email
One more piece of analysis:

The emerging ooze seems to be formed of a habit of laziness upon encountering a difficult task.

My aversion to it seems very much like Weaver's aversion to Whitman.
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4 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

There is something especially pathetic about watching two eighth-graders preparing themselves for a heresy trial. Take this together with the recent Sweatt affair and the infinite ignorance of modern emergence and you get the sense that the American church has been well and truly sifted.

And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

If we are not teachers, what are we?

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5 Comment from: Unk [Visitor] Email
eighth-graders.
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6 Comment from: the divine passive [Visitor] Email
What will Tony Jones be when he finishes his dissertation? Oh wait, Richard Mitchell already covered that. Never mind.
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