thinktoomuch.net » Paradoxes http://www.thinktoomuch.net Pondering the South African Memesphere - Looking for the Good in Everything Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:11:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reduce or Wrestle — Peter Rollins http://www.thinktoomuch.net/2009/03/04/reduce-or-wrestle-peter-rollins/ http://www.thinktoomuch.net/2009/03/04/reduce-or-wrestle-peter-rollins/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:02:53 +0000 thinker http://www.thinktoomuch.net/?p=700 Found via a blog post on his blog, in this video of Peter Rollins, he shares an ancient Jewish parable about what it means to wrestle with scripture, what the tradition means to those that belong to the family.

the essence,
not that we find the right answer, but that we
wrestle with the tradition
fight with it
love it
are transformed by it…

Suggested alternative reading: God’s owners — talking about the same kind of thing, but with a very different style, from a very different perspective.

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