#texts

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assessment #associated #derive #enterprises #extremists

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#am #away #bear #brings #children

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#called #interpret #light #reason #scripture

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#cannot #classical #handle #i #shakespeare

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#i #own #paid #read #regime

We had a few tragic accidents in our state, as they've had in every state, from train crashes on down. And really, no text is worth dying for; that is our message to young people. And this is such a new phenomenon when you look at the number of texts and how they've increased exponentially in just the last few years. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#crashes #down #dying #every #exponentially

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#contexts #determine #different #different kinds #ends