Greg here, this is my first blog post, but I am going to bring the nerd train here immediately. So starting off, we talked about the significance of stories within religious traditions and we began by splitting the category of stories into multiple units. Then, by some arcane process of conversation that I do not comprehend we moved on to talk about monsters. Don't know how it happened, but it was fun. As the fun bus accelerated we talked about what counts as stories and the cessation of prophecy as a way that religious traditions use to effectively crystallize their own development. This evolved into a discussion of the varieties of stories which is where we stayed until our time unfortunately came to an end.
On a slightly drier note, there are a few pieces of vocabulary that we discovered/learned/talked about that were significant. The first term we arrived at was "seed stories", or the particular stories that religious traditions base their own development around. This would include, for example, the crucifixion of Jesus and the narrative that surrounds him. Next up on the chopping block is the "cessation of prophecy", or what occurred in Judaism, (much of) Christianity and Islam (the Abrahamic faiths) which declared that the time of prophetic communication with the divine had ended. Lastly we have "multiplicity of truth", in which multiple potentially contradicting things can be held to be true simultaneously.
Enjoy our week between meetings, because we will be back with a vengeance on Tuesday. So long, and take a listen to this; nothing to do with religion but it makes me warm and fuzzy inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWY-JOhF2I....
Greg
Ana-Sofia here. Just wanted to put a link to that video I talked about during dialogue
On a slightly drier note, there are a few pieces of vocabulary that we discovered/learned/talked about that were significant. The first term we arrived at was "seed stories", or the particular stories that religious traditions base their own development around. This would include, for example, the crucifixion of Jesus and the narrative that surrounds him. Next up on the chopping block is the "cessation of prophecy", or what occurred in Judaism, (much of) Christianity and Islam (the Abrahamic faiths) which declared that the time of prophetic communication with the divine had ended. Lastly we have "multiplicity of truth", in which multiple potentially contradicting things can be held to be true simultaneously.
Enjoy our week between meetings, because we will be back with a vengeance on Tuesday. So long, and take a listen to this; nothing to do with religion but it makes me warm and fuzzy inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWY-JOhF2I....
Greg
Ana-Sofia here. Just wanted to put a link to that video I talked about during dialogue