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Hermeneutic(s)

The Grammar of our Lives

The Grammar of our Lives

Phuc Tran offers an insightful TED talk inviting us to attend afresh to the grammar of our lives. So good! Peace, dwight

Dwight J. Friesen February 22, 2021November 22, 2021

Dr. Angela Parker, Reading Texts, Reading Cultures

Dr. Angela Parker, Reading Texts, Reading Cultures

During a recent prospective student “Preview Event” Dr. Angela Parker delivered a lecture titled “Reading Texts, Reading Cultures.” I was thrilled to discover that someone at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology recorded it. I wanted to share it

Dwight J. Friesen March 31, 2016November 3, 2022

Change the Meaning & Lifting the Curse

Change the Meaning & Lifting the Curse

I stumbled across the above video; its a live performance of “Alive” by Pearl Jam. Eddie Vedder’s introduction where he shares some of the backstory is beautiful. He shares how that experience felt like a curse at the time of

Dwight J. Friesen February 18, 2015November 3, 2022

“Free for All” April 15-16 Durham, NC

“Free for All”  April 15-16  Durham, NC

There is a free conference being held in Durham, NC (April 15&16, 2010) bringing people together in discussion around the themes raised in the outstanding new book by Tim Conder & Dan Rhodes, Free for All: Rediscovering the Bible In

Dwight J. Friesen March 31, 2010January 15, 2021

Intro to the Hermeneutical Task: the Art of Reading Beyond the Page

Intro to the Hermeneutical Task: the Art of Reading Beyond the Page

I am thrilled to be guiding students through a course exploring the art and science of reading. This course is part one of a two part series at the school and this, first part, is designed to enable people to

Dwight J. Friesen May 31, 2007September 29, 2022

courses for the fall

courses for the fall

I’m knee deep in the process of crafting my courses that I’ll be guiding students through at MHGS this fall. They are a thrilling and important list of courses and I’m looking for suggestions that you might have for engagements,

Dwight J. Friesen May 31, 2007September 21, 2022

Authoritative Bible

Authoritative Bible

How Can the Bible be Authoritative? by N.T. Wright. Vox Evangelica 21 1991. Peace, dwight

Dwight J. Friesen August 14, 2005January 14, 2021

Paradigms

Paradigms

I you have visited my site before you will know that I am in the process of constructing a more relational theology. Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) has helped us to see that anytime the is a paradigm

Dwight J. Friesen June 10, 2005September 20, 2022

Jacques Derrida has Died

Jacques Derrida has Died

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida One of the great thinkers of our time has died.  On Friday, October 8 2004, Jacques Derrida died at a Paris hospital of pancreatic

Dwight J. Friesen October 10, 2004September 13, 2022

Putting Words in Jesus’ Mouth?

Putting Words in Jesus’ Mouth?

Lately I have been challenging the the assumption was raised with that God created the church. Is God drawing people together to live the the way of Jesus? – yes. Was Christ’s statement to Peter about what we now commonly

Dwight J. Friesen January 11, 2004December 13, 2022

Scale-Free Networks

Scale-Free Networks

Here is the latest essay I’ve written in my doctoral studies. Scale-Free Networks as a Structural Hermeneutic for Relational Ecclesiology Peace, dwight

Dwight J. Friesen December 22, 2003November 14, 2022

semioics of blogging?

semioics of blogging?

I’ve been doing a lot of reading and research in the area of semiotics (a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols, especially the unintended signs). What do the signs of blogging reveal? Smoke in the woods may

Dwight J. Friesen August 19, 2003May 4, 2022

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