Roland Barthes famously talked about “the death of the author”. By this he meant that we shouldn’t waste our time attempting to work out and authors intention when writing. The author’s relationship to the text ends as soon as they have written it. S/he is to all intents and purposes dead to his work and… Continue reading Death of the author and murder of the story
Tag: postmodernism
An inaccurate hostage situation (spoilers)
The TV show currently gripping everyone’s attention is Netflix’s Hostage. The story focuses on a new British Prime Minister whose husband whilst serving with Medicine Sans Frontiere is taken hostage by a terror group with a personal vendetta against the PM. It’s a great watch for the tension, political intrigued, running, shooting and explosions (if,… Continue reading An inaccurate hostage situation (spoilers)
Useful Idiots? Social Justice, critical theory and the evangelical church
In a podcast for Evangelical Times, Sharon James discusses Critical Theory with Mike Judge, The blurb suggests that: Dr Sharon James says Critical Theory and the ideas of the Social Justice movement are the single biggest moral threat to our society. She says church leaders should not act as “useful idiots” by embracing its language… Continue reading Useful Idiots? Social Justice, critical theory and the evangelical church
The hermeneutical spiral
One of the things we’ve been exploring is the challenge that comes when reading Scripture. The problem is that although God’s Word is objectively true, infallible, inerrant and clearly revealed, we are finite, affected by The Fall, conditioned by our own culture and experience. The result is that we bring all of those things into… Continue reading The hermeneutical spiral
The hermeneutical foul
If you’ll indulge me, I want to say a little bit more about the recent debate that followed that Jonathan Leeman article. The article and the aftermath raised important questions about how we read and hear what others are saying, including God’s Word but also how we read and hear what each other are saying.… Continue reading The hermeneutical foul
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