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Try convincing my students of this in light of AI:

“We live in a world mediated by meaning. Knowledge of that world is not writing or reading or speaking. It is not ‘taking a good look.’ Knowledge is a much more profound and intimate achievement than this. It requires a mind; it requires a mind that makes a judgment. In other words, thinking is something that we do; it does not arrive to us ready-made.”

“The church is situated in medias res, dealing confusedly and sometimes sinfully with events somewhere in the middle of the story; or is it nearer the end or the beginning? We do not know…[W]e ourselves possess no resting place here, be it a secure theological system, a normative pattern of social or political life, or a determinate method of interpreting Scripture.”

I can’t recall ever reading a study that I find so poorly argued to the point of absurdity and yet simultaneously fascinating. This is one of those books.

“A steady expansion of the ego and its fantasies becomes a way of concealing from yourself the poverty that you have to live with” (p. 28).