When Texts Walk Among Us: Touching the Meaning With Your Hands
We know without interpreting. If we have to interpret, we don’t yet know.
How do we know what Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Dante, C.S. Lewis, or Tolkien meant? Is it enough to read their books? How do we elicit meaning?
Isn’t it curious that God didn’t come to humanity with a book? He came with a body. The ultimate knowledge of God is enfleshed in the Son of God. He walked among us, and we saw his glory. The Logos becam…
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