James K. A. Smith Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.”
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“Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.”
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“In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.”
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“What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?”
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“Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.”
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“Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.”
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“What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?”
-- James K. A. Smith
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