Frameworks

Recent Articles

• Who’s talking

  February 13, 2007 in theoretically speaking

  The self emerges in response to others. Very early in life, individuals are able to interact with their selves such that there is the “inner” and “outer” self. When I ask myself, “Who …

• Cultivating humanity in the local church

  February 11, 2007 in cultural interpretation, pause for reflection

  Recently reading through the history of higher education in America, I learned about significant shifts in curriculum design through the 19th and 20th centuries. The earlier in the history of college education you go …

• Questioning totality in the understanding of human persons

  July 25, 2006 in categories and paradigms

  Howard Thurman insists that a person that encounters “God” enounters with the totality of their person (The Creative Encounter). I like reading Thurman. However, in reading him today I have new questions. …

• Interpretive understanding is a radically humanistic enterprise

  July 24, 2006 in theoretically speaking

  The pursuit of interpretive understanding is radically humanistic. Plants and animals do not construct meanings in the same way human beings do. This is not to disparage the love of living nature or …

• Interpretive understanding through textual discourse

  July 24, 2006 in theoretically speaking

  Here begins an attempt to pursue understanding of the world away from percentages and statistics, taking into acount common orientations to everyday life, systematically investigating social meaning in the ongoing reproduction of the social world.