Re (1): Truth, etc. etc.

Sara,

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all of his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

Okay, well, I guess that's a limerick. Let me try again (screws up his face): "Once upon a time there was a frog prince...." Oh, well, confound it all! I give up. I'm just no good at this parable business. It is just so much easier to talk about ontologies and metaphysics and epistemologies and linguistics and semiotics with the sign comprised of signified and signifier à la de Saussure.

Seriously, there is a time and a place for all types of writing. The purpose of apologetics is primarily to safeguard against error and to offer rational and compelling reasons why something is true: its purpose is the explication of truth and its form is formal argumentation. And certainly when it comes to parables, the true meaning of those were often veiled from people and required exposition: those times in which we read "and Jesus 'told them plainly....'" And He also varied His approach to the specific audience and said just what it needed to hear, something like the Apostle Paul being "all things to all people." So yeah: for everything under the sun, there is a time: a time to reap, a time to sow, a time to compose limericks, a time to pen fairy tales, a time to explicate ideas using the formal writing of apologetics, particularly when the assumed audience is academic.

Thus said the man from Nantucket.

God bless,
Eric

• Re(2): Truth, etc. etc. - By Sara August 31, 2005 at 07:59:45 AM
  • Re(3): Truth, etc. etc. - By Eric August 31, 2005 at 01:44:41 PM
    • Re(4): Truth, etc. etc. - By Sara August 31, 2005 at 02:24:43 PM