Richard S. Briggs
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195383355
- eISBN:
- 9780199870561
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383355.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, History of Christianity
This chapter looks at the issues occupying the interpretation of Genesis at the time of Darwin and notes that the impact of the discovery of ancient Near Eastern creation accounts came at more or ...
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This chapter looks at the issues occupying the interpretation of Genesis at the time of Darwin and notes that the impact of the discovery of ancient Near Eastern creation accounts came at more or less the same time as the impact of Darwin's writing. As a result, the interpretation of Genesis could operate within two completely different hermeneutical frameworks, neither of which was directly linked to the plain-sense concerns of the Genesis text. A variety of examples of interpreting Genesis in the light of ancient Near Eastern texts is explored, seeking to demonstrate that there is a variety of ways in which hermeneutical benefit may be derived from reading a text in the light of other concerns, and a similar case is then made with respect to the hermeneutics of reading Genesis after Darwin.Less
This chapter looks at the issues occupying the interpretation of Genesis at the time of Darwin and notes that the impact of the discovery of ancient Near Eastern creation accounts came at more or less the same time as the impact of Darwin's writing. As a result, the interpretation of Genesis could operate within two completely different hermeneutical frameworks, neither of which was directly linked to the plain-sense concerns of the Genesis text. A variety of examples of interpreting Genesis in the light of ancient Near Eastern texts is explored, seeking to demonstrate that there is a variety of ways in which hermeneutical benefit may be derived from reading a text in the light of other concerns, and a similar case is then made with respect to the hermeneutics of reading Genesis after Darwin.
Betty Booth Donohue
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037370
- eISBN:
- 9780813042336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037370.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter argues that Of Plimoth Plantation's Parts One and Two are of two very different genres. Part One is similar to an American Indian creation account, while Part Two is a winter count. ...
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This chapter argues that Of Plimoth Plantation's Parts One and Two are of two very different genres. Part One is similar to an American Indian creation account, while Part Two is a winter count. Taken together, they form a medicine text, a term that the author has coined and explained. The final chapter is given over to explaining how Bradford's book is, in both a metaphorical and physical sense, as much American Indian as it is European American. Its thrust is that Of Plimoth Plantation initiates what will become known as American literature in terms of American themes and poetics which are, in large measure, derived from American Indian compositional practices.Less
This chapter argues that Of Plimoth Plantation's Parts One and Two are of two very different genres. Part One is similar to an American Indian creation account, while Part Two is a winter count. Taken together, they form a medicine text, a term that the author has coined and explained. The final chapter is given over to explaining how Bradford's book is, in both a metaphorical and physical sense, as much American Indian as it is European American. Its thrust is that Of Plimoth Plantation initiates what will become known as American literature in terms of American themes and poetics which are, in large measure, derived from American Indian compositional practices.
Georges Dicker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195381467
- eISBN:
- 9780199897124
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381467.003.0014
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
If bodies are only ideas in our minds, then how can they continue to exist when we don't perceive them? Berkeley's favorite answer to this “intermittency objection” is that God always perceives them, ...
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If bodies are only ideas in our minds, then how can they continue to exist when we don't perceive them? Berkeley's favorite answer to this “intermittency objection” is that God always perceives them, and sometimes he argues, circularly, that their continued existence proves God's existence. This chapter argues that, to avoid this circularity, Berkeley's reply to the intermittency objection and his case for God must both be made to rest on the passivity argument alone, but that this argument fails, for reasons akin to Hume's objections to the teleological argument. Dicker nonetheless examines Berkeley's theological response to the intermittency objection in detail, especially as it is interpreted by Ken Winkler, who draws on Berkeley's treatment of the Mosaic account of creation in the Dialogues. The chapter also offers an extended discussion of the nontheological, phenomenalist responses, found in Mill and by Ayer, which Berkeley hinted at but didn't advocate.Less
If bodies are only ideas in our minds, then how can they continue to exist when we don't perceive them? Berkeley's favorite answer to this “intermittency objection” is that God always perceives them, and sometimes he argues, circularly, that their continued existence proves God's existence. This chapter argues that, to avoid this circularity, Berkeley's reply to the intermittency objection and his case for God must both be made to rest on the passivity argument alone, but that this argument fails, for reasons akin to Hume's objections to the teleological argument. Dicker nonetheless examines Berkeley's theological response to the intermittency objection in detail, especially as it is interpreted by Ken Winkler, who draws on Berkeley's treatment of the Mosaic account of creation in the Dialogues. The chapter also offers an extended discussion of the nontheological, phenomenalist responses, found in Mill and by Ayer, which Berkeley hinted at but didn't advocate.
