tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post4673390219443468280..comments2024-01-11T10:58:30.769-05:00Comments on Jesus community: faith and scienceTed M. Gossardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-16739896612327499232008-11-24T04:13:00.000-05:002008-11-24T04:13:00.000-05:00Thanks Beth,Yes, I'd be interested in this book an...Thanks Beth,<BR/><BR/>Yes, I'd be interested in this book and will try to get my hands on it. Where we live pretty good chances I will (definitely so if you throw Calvin College into the mix).<BR/><BR/>I'm glad for the emphasis in much of evangelicalism today to get back to the entire heritage of the church (of course that emphasis has been going on for some time, and is bearing some good fruit I think). I would be weary of casting the entire hermeneutic of the Reformation aside, which perhaps Harrison is not actually suggesting. I agree with Scot McKnight (his excellent, new little book, "Blue Parakeet") that we need to read Scripture WITH tradition, and NOT THROUGH tradition. And we need to read it as it was meant to be read. But to deny that philosophy does not influence how we read and see life, is of course a mistake.<BR/><BR/>But yes, hopefully the way we read does not sap the Scriptures of the life and beauty and sense of "beyond us" that is there.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your thoughts.Ted M. Gossardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580691315315271791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20184070.post-29239028695748225702008-11-24T02:37:00.000-05:002008-11-24T02:37:00.000-05:00Great thoughts, Ted. I'm reading Peter Harrison's ...Great thoughts, Ted. I'm reading Peter Harrison's <I>The Bible, Protestantism and the Rise of Natural Science.</I> It does a great job of showing the roots of the division between faith and science. See the helpful review of this book from Touchstone at http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=14-06-051-b. <BR/><BR/>Could it be the case that the very textual hermeneutic that Luther champions is what laid the foundation for naturalism? <BR/>Is Protestantism as rationalist and reductionist in its mentality as modern secular science and philosophy? Did the Reformation hermeneutic help overthrow the Aristotelian understanding of science not only in terms of efficient but final causes, and set the stage for the view that the universe is simply matter in motion by "rejecting essential symbolic relations between objects and by reducing signs to mental associations?" <BR/><BR/>Read the book and decide for yourself. Personally, I think Harrison is onto something.Beth Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00080711997032932991noreply@blogger.com