Comments on: The Story is the Point http://thomasknoll.info/the-story-is-the-point-90370 thinking out loud - community cultivation & customer development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Fisher http://thomasknoll.info/the-story-is-the-point-90370#comment-354 Bob Fisher Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:56:31 +0000 http://dydimustk.com/blog/?p=90370#comment-354 It is not that there is no overarching framework, it is that there is no ONE metanarrative that automatically has precedence. Someone who, for example, doesn't fully buy the US story that our actions are all good and right and our enemies are pure evil doers but acknowledges that others in the world could have a point about American use of wealth and power is synthesizing their own story out of competing stories. It is often said in postmodern theology that there is absolute Truth, but none of us has total access to it. Our stories, unlike God's, are necessarily incomplete. Interesting point about the Theory of Everything...although I think the work of science is different than someone's insistance that they have THE story, you may be right that such a theory will be one explanation, not the only explanation. Given the speculative nature of such work and the complexities involved, that may be a wise approach. While scientific theories are not mere guessing, as non-scientists often believe, they aren't purported to be absoute truth, either. It is not that there is no overarching framework, it is that there is no ONE metanarrative that automatically has precedence. Someone who, for example, doesn’t fully buy the US story that our actions are all good and right and our enemies are pure evil doers but acknowledges that others in the world could have a point about American use of wealth and power is synthesizing their own story out of competing stories. It is often said in postmodern theology that there is absolute Truth, but none of us has total access to it. Our stories, unlike God’s, are necessarily incomplete. Interesting point about the Theory of Everything…although I think the work of science is different than someone’s insistance that they have THE story, you may be right that such a theory will be one explanation, not the only explanation. Given the speculative nature of such work and the complexities involved, that may be a wise approach. While scientific theories are not mere guessing, as non-scientists often believe, they aren’t purported to be absoute truth, either.

]]> By: dydimustk http://thomasknoll.info/the-story-is-the-point-90370#comment-353 dydimustk Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:25:46 +0000 http://dydimustk.com/blog/?p=90370#comment-353 so in other words, the stories matter, and even our interweaving stories matter, but there is no overarching framework? Does that mean postmodernism does not believe Hawking et. al. will ever find a "Theory of Everything"? so in other words, the stories matter, and even our interweaving stories matter, but there is no overarching framework?

Does that mean postmodernism does not believe Hawking et. al. will ever find a “Theory of Everything”?

]]> By: Bob Fisher http://thomasknoll.info/the-story-is-the-point-90370#comment-352 Bob Fisher Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:29:03 +0000 http://dydimustk.com/blog/?p=90370#comment-352 Thomas, I think the shift is in the authority of the story. For moderns, the metanarrative is authoritative, and determines the truth and value of the individual or community story. And we could lump individuals who challenge us or disagree under a competing metanarrative and easily dismiss both. Today, we can hear other people's stories directly, thanks to diversity in our communities and schools, the ability to travel, video and the internet. So individual and community stories have gained authority, while the power of the overarching stories have eroded some. I don't know that we've actually seen them flip, but the absolute power and acceptance of the metanarrative is dead. Thomas, I think the shift is in the authority of the story. For moderns, the metanarrative is authoritative, and determines the truth and value of the individual or community story. And we could lump individuals who challenge us or disagree under a competing metanarrative and easily dismiss both. Today, we can hear other people’s stories directly, thanks to diversity in our communities and schools, the ability to travel, video and the internet. So individual and community stories have gained authority, while the power of the overarching stories have eroded some. I don’t know that we’ve actually seen them flip, but the absolute power and acceptance of the metanarrative is dead.

]]> By: open source theology | collaborative theology for the emerging church http://thomasknoll.info/the-story-is-the-point-90370#comment-351 open source theology | collaborative theology for the emerging church Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://dydimustk.com/blog/?p=90370#comment-351 <!--%kramer-pre%-->Churtch Without Walls - The Sermon Emerging Reading Social Justice Surprise I think I really like it. The Emerging Church Needs More… David’s Bucket: Emerging Churches Quotes I Skipped Church Today An Open Letter to Rob Bell The Story is the Point <!--%kramer-post%--> Churtch Without Walls – The Sermon Emerging Reading Social Justice Surprise I think I really like it. The Emerging Church Needs More… David’s Bucket: Emerging Churches Quotes I Skipped Church Today An Open Letter to Rob Bell The Story is the Point

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