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This makes me think that approaching scripture intellectually must be a waste of time. If Newton couldn't distill any worthy insights after a lifetime of study
by gerbilly 9y ago
This makes me think that approaching scripture intellectually must be a waste of time.
If Newton couldn't distill any worthy insights after a lifetime of study, then there mustn't be anything to find.
I mean reading the scriptures allegorically, or as poetry or with the 'right brain' can be a valuable thing to do, but to parse them too finely seems like the wrong way to go about it.
- j0e1 9y ago> .. worthy insights .. I'm curious how you would define that. As far as I understand, Newton's life was definitely colored and shaped by his theological pursuits-questioning their 'worthy'ness is raising the more fundamental argument of faith.
- gerbilly 9y agoI mean that if Newton had found some groundbreaking insights through his lifetime of studying scripture, that we would likely have heard about them: the way we heard about calculus or gravitational theory or optics.
- Retra 9y agoNewton wrote far more on his religion than he did on physics and optics. But it turns out that the value of that writing was virtually insignificant next to what little he wrote on physics and optics.
- jdtang13 9y agoYou may be interested in authors like Pseudo-Dionysius the Areophagite and Origen, who were extremely, extremely intellectual in their approach to reading Christian scriptures.
- antiquark 9y ago> approaching scripture intellectually Jordan Peterson is making a go of it these days.