Devon Humphery’s Reviews > The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing: A Theological Commentary > Status Update

“The work of reading (or hearing, for that matter) demands, in addition to, the activation or anesthetizing of cultural encyclopedic knowledge, which permits that which is deciphered or heard to become a meaningful whole.” Texts have an intention (intentio operis) and a good reader will seek to understand this.” (page 23)