Tag Archives: intellect

ACCM: Brainstorming

Posted on June 7, 2013 by ehurst

Re: Proposed A Course in Christian Mysticism (ACCM) Brainstorming is grabbing every idea which might be in any way related or simply driving your concerns. We pray over the mixed collection of ideas, then organize them into some recognizable pattern. … Continue reading →

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Proposal: A Course in Christian Mysticism

Posted on June 6, 2013 by ehurst

I am a true Christian Mystic. That should not be taken as a suggestion everyone else is false, but that I obviously disagree with just about everyone else promoting Christian Mysticism. If you understand anything at all about mysticism in … Continue reading →

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Epistemology, in a Manner of Speaking

Posted on June 5, 2013 by ehurst

My use of the term, and the implied question, of epistemology is an accommodation to Westerners. It’s an attempt to speak their language. Frankly, the question itself is circular reasoning. That is, the common Aristotelian evaluation of the answer to … Continue reading →

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Untangling Activist Logic

Posted on June 4, 2013 by ehurst

Activist logic does not even qualify as decent Aristotelian logic. In order to reject the primacy of Aristotelian epistemology, I first had to understand it to some degree. This didn’t come as some dreamy longing for swords and sorcery. It … Continue reading →

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Defined by Morality

Posted on June 2, 2013 by ehurst

Morality and Justice are the roughly equivalent terms in the Kingdom of God. It is the divine imperative, not in the sense so much of laws as a divine gift from God. He offers to fallen mankind the opportunity to … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes 4

Posted on June 1, 2013 by ehurst

Solomon continues his theme that human wisdom without revelation is confusion and madness. He next points out that, as bad as life is without the Word of God, it can only get worse when you consider how humans interact, or … Continue reading →

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Truth Seizes a Few

Posted on May 30, 2013 by ehurst

Whether you seek it consciously or not, truth will seize only a few at a time. That’s pretty much the meaning of the twin parables of the Found Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price (Matthew 13:44-46). The other point … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes 3

Posted on May 25, 2013 by ehurst

What can we know from the human level? In Hebrew, context is everything. Thus, it is common sense to folks in Solomon’s time, but was included by God’s design. No one should strive to be the same in call contexts, … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Solomon

Posted on May 19, 2013 by ehurst

Spoiler alert: I’m going to explain how the book of Ecclesiastes turns out, while our weekly study will continue running for a couple of months. First, a little context. Solomon took the throne rather like a big fish in a … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes 2

Posted on May 18, 2013 by ehurst

The question remains: Can a human come up with better answers about life in this world? Surely becoming king is worth something, no? Solomon describes how he kept a part of his mind objective in testing everything. This isn’t plunging … Continue reading →

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