tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post2712271615279687791..comments2024-03-25T19:00:40.046-06:00Comments on The Constructive Curmudgeon: Being Literate, Becoming LiterateDouglas Groothuis, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-82671936438568170842007-11-25T15:16:00.000-07:002007-11-25T15:16:00.000-07:00Great post, thanks.Great post, thanks.Brandon Dahmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11205795932450490112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-33036518828150745612007-11-23T20:10:00.000-07:002007-11-23T20:10:00.000-07:00Professor Groothuis, when I started attending your...Professor Groothuis, when I started attending your class, I bought myself a little notebook, to write down even just a few sentences of what I have read, learned or discovered about God & Truth everyday. It's a great joy to be on this discovery journey and we are created in His image to do so.<BR/>Thank you, professor.phyllishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017144962302373895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-17833865049238513772007-11-23T19:51:00.000-07:002007-11-23T19:51:00.000-07:00Study has a cost, but it is worth it. Discipline y...Study has a cost, but it is worth it. Discipline your mind and body to do it!Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08766692378954258034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-86758206547743826632007-11-23T12:07:00.000-07:002007-11-23T12:07:00.000-07:00While I love reading whatever I can get my hands o...While I love reading whatever I can get my hands on and love new challenges and therefore agree with your comments, I was wondering what you make of the end of your quote: "Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body."<BR/>The first verses seem to say that reading and studying are good, but that last sentence seems to be more cynical on the topic, or at least I always assumed it was a warning against reading too much.Kylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01596029154450506674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-84199967398482618842007-11-23T09:40:00.000-07:002007-11-23T09:40:00.000-07:00Great post. In a multimedia age have films and tel...Great post. In a multimedia age have films and television programs become the new "literature"?<BR/><BR/>Your post reminded me of a quote by C.S. Lewis from his book <I>An Experiment in Criticism</I>:<BR/><BR/>"But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."Robert Velardehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665635776181855486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-8108732851797870982007-11-23T05:53:00.000-07:002007-11-23T05:53:00.000-07:00Excellent!Excellent!Exile from GROGGShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00520118288960599976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-57675767603363613002007-11-23T02:14:00.000-07:002007-11-23T02:14:00.000-07:00I wrote a version of this on the apollos.ws webpag...I wrote a version of this on the apollos.ws webpage:<BR/><BR/>Somehow I developed a fascination with asking a particular question: What is the correct view (on any topic)? Not what do I wish was the correct view. Not what does the media think is the correct view. But what is the correct view. I try to read the very best arguments that the other side has, but that makes things even more interesting because it can allow one to get even closer to the correct view. When I started to apply this fascination with being honest to apologetic questions, things became even more interesting. It is like a discovery. One doesn’t know (on various topics) what one is going to find. Maybe that is one of the reasons it can be incredibly interesting. I’ll probably have this powerful fascination in me for all of my life. I don’t know if this (honesty) has had the most impact on my life, but it has had a major, major influence on it. I’m trying to read the very best arguments on both sides of a view. It seems (for me) to be a great way to find the right view on a topic. <BR/><BR/><BR/>In the book Habits of the Mind Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling James W. Sire offers an initial definition of what an intellectual is. Sire writes, “An intellectual is one who loves ideas, is dedicated to clarifying them, developing them, criticizing them, turning them over and over, seeing their implications, stacking them atop one another, arranging them, sitting silent while new ideas pop up and old ones seem to rearrange themselves, playing with them, punning with their terminology, laughing at them, watching them clash, picking up the pieces, starting over, judging them, withholding judgment about them, changing them, bringing them into contact with their counterparts in other systems of thought, inviting them to dine and have a ball but also suiting them for service in workaday life.<BR/><BR/>A Christian intellectual is all of the above to the glory of God.”<BR/><BR/>Does anybody have comments on Sire’s definition?Kyl Schalkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17954965854308545599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14410967.post-39822248756289583032007-11-23T00:32:00.000-07:002007-11-23T00:32:00.000-07:00This reminds me of the answer a friend of mine use...This reminds me of the answer a friend of mine used to give people when she was asked what she would *do* with her M.A. in English. Her answer? Everytime she read a newspaper, wrote a letter to a friend, thought about the world and her place in it, or had a good conversation over dinner and drinks she was putting her degree to use. Whatever could be more useful for life than the background afforded the literate mind?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05074257624733067171noreply@blogger.com