thinktoomuch.net » Paradoxes http://www.thinktoomuch.net Looking for the Good in Everything - An Emerging Memetic Engineer from South Africa Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:24:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 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 Hugo 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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