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이제 동방교회와 서방교회가 나뉘기 시작한다. 5장은 동방교회의 침묵에 대한 강조와, 그에 대조되는 Augustine 이후 서방교회의 몰락에 대한 이야기다. 로마제국의 멸망 이후 야만의 시대를 거치는 서유럽과, 이와는 별개로 독자적인 신학체계를 구성해가던 동방교회는, 언어의 경계를 초월한 신을 침묵을 통해 만나게 된다. Liturgy를 통해 구현되는 이 과정은 Denys가 서방세계에 번역되면서 서유럽에도 도입된다. 그러나 서방교회에서 침묵수행은 Liturgy의 일부가 아니라 철저히 관념적으로 도입된다.

The end of Chapter Two. The first two chapters culminate as the genealogy of God in Judo-Christian monotheism. The explanation of the composition of the Hebrew Bible (the stratas as J, E, D, P and 2nd Isaia) is not very different from the first half of her another book "The Bible: A Biography." Now I can understand that the early from Judaism has not started before the commentary on Torah by Ezra in the 5th cen BCE.

Always enlightening to read Karen Armstrong. Can I call the idea an 'empirical God?' A kind of device to explain the dilemmas of human lives that we, and our ancestors, have faced every day? So far, it seems to me that she tries to argue that religious scriptures being read as law codes (i.e., literally), and God as an entity with any WILL are modern delusion.

Started reading it. The "great leap forward" of Merge.

Started reading again from the first page through the second chapter. Now I might not be able to read John as I did before.

Chapter 2 is well-written. It discusses three grounds of Anglican faith: Scriptures, tradition, and reason. By doing so it locates Anglicanism in the wider spectrum of Christianity in general.

It doesn't read very easily. You may need to study it.

It's a kind of books you might want to read with your highlighter and pen. Rather like a textbook than a reading for the general public.

자연과학의 역사를 훑어주고 있는데 따라가기가 힘들다. 뉴턴이 처음 만유인력을 이야기했을 때, 물체간의 접촉 없이 끌어당기는 힘이라는 개념이 당대 과학자들은 물론 뉴턴 자신에게도 absurdity로 다가왔고 따라서 중력을 primitive로 받아들이는 게 아니라 그걸 mechanical 하게 설명하고자 했던 노력이 많았었다고 한다. 하지만 그 문제는 해결되기보다는 '사라져버렸다.' 즉 과학이 발전함에 따라 중력을 유발하는 더 근본적 인자는 무엇인가에 대한 질문을 하지 않게 된 것!

Ch 1 concerns the basic property of language (and arguably of human cognition): merge. As a student of linguistics, I'm somewhat familiar with this idea as it is a backbone of Minimalist Program.
Ch 2 is about the notions of mystery and problem. The scope and limit of human cognition is derived from our biological endowment.
Ch 3 deals with two kinds of liberalism and how they are intertwined in the history of US.

from p.115:
"Nature may be the way it is because of some accident that happened at some point in time. Call this the historical answer. Or nature may be the way it is because that is the simplest way it could be. Call this the Galilean answer. The historical answer [...] is never deep. Things could well have been otherwise. [...] By contrast, the Galilean answer implies that things couldn't have been otherwise.[..]

I got the book, thinking of reading it on my vacation, but alas I have already started it today before even finished writing my final paper. so far so good. good enough for not removing it from my vacation to-read list.

Sumerians depicted in the Epic of Gilgamesh identified themselves as their gods, who is believed to follow, not unlike the people, the natural laws say celestial movements, which is derived from their observation of the universe. The secular and the sacred were not separable, nor was it possible to pinpoint a personal religion. Communal practice was the only way to imagine a religion in the pre-modern context.