I urge not that we assume that love will provide a reliable foundation for knowledge but that we nonetheless keep the requirements of love of neighbor foremost in our interpretations of Scripture. We should consider, for example, love to be a necessary criterion (a minimum) when defending an interpretation of Scripture even if it cannot be a sufficient criterion that will guarantee ethical interpretation.
Dale B. MartinTags: love bible interpretation hermeneutics bible-interpretation biblical-interpretation
Good docents often begin by asking the viewer, “What do you see in this work?” The idea that the expert should be allowed to constrain the interpretation of others rightly offends our sensibilities about museums and art. It ought to offend us just as much when applied to Scripture.
Dale B. MartinTags: christianity scripture bible interpretation hermeneutics biblical-interpretation
Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: dreams interpretation subconscious-mind
There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.
Truth DevourTags: truth communication self interpretation lessons-learnt
When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I don't know what to make of it, just write it like I tell it, so the reader can make up his own mind.
David MitchellTags: stories interpretation readers ghosts magical-realism
Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?
William K. WimsattTags: literature meaning interpretation critics
The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.
Susan SontagTags: criticism interpretation content form
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