tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post7021799390011089812..comments2023-09-23T07:46:55.137-04:00Comments on the ashram: Creativity, particularity, breakthroughs and lossesgeoff and sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-77195801130652484152009-06-27T12:49:45.509-04:002009-06-27T12:49:45.509-04:00i had to read this quote a few (many!) times becau...i had to read this quote a few (many!) times because i'm a bit slow...but it does evoke a question in me about the interrelatedness of ideas, imaginations, and actions. it seems to me that historical scholarship often lacks what Brown expresses here...pathos. <br /><br />i also agree with billy that Brown seems to miss or at least devalue the continuity (the ideas/values/actions) that bridgegeoff and sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-20552334286159200452009-06-24T14:54:50.214-04:002009-06-24T14:54:50.214-04:00I really do love this thought...I'm not sure, ...I really do love this thought...I'm not sure, as Brown seems to suggest, that this is a necessary implication of conceptual breakthroughs...but I do think there is a lot of evidence for what he says in history...perhaps it is true in the general sense...as Dan has noted via Terry's work, Greek holdovers in Western thought have been a pretty totalizing influence...but I think there's billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08869740559280036839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-55916173708499019242009-06-24T14:27:16.556-04:002009-06-24T14:27:16.556-04:00Wow! Maria, that is an amazing quote. I think it r...Wow! Maria, that is an amazing quote. I think it really gets at what Terry is trying to accomplish in his challenge of dualism with arguing for a wholistic approach to the way in which we see Scripture and live our lives. Thanks for the food for thought! Love you guys!Dan Lowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17258134760645335502noreply@blogger.com