We all know too well the common “pendulum swinging” story of how we got from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period of literature. Most of us also know that it is a very misleading oversimplification…
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“I regard any writing (and lecturing) which I do as part of an ongoing dialogue. While striving to put my thoughts and insights in as finished a form as possible I have never presumed I was giving the final word on a subject. Writing helps me to clarify my own thinking; but my hope is also to help clarify the particular issues and considerations most relevant to these issues for others. Naturally I seek to find answers to my questions and offer up my own conclusions. But not in any attempt to bully readers into agreement: more with the objective of provoking them to respond, to join in the dialogue, in the hope that out of the continuing and larger dialogue a clearer and fuller picture will emerge.” – J.G.D. Dunn, preface to the second edition of Christology in the Making
We all know too well the common “pendulum swinging” story of how we got from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period of literature. Most of us also know that it is a very misleading oversimplification…
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