On the subject of the New World & older ways of looking at the forest, a friend of mine who's very into sociology and the environment pointed out to me that if you look at 19th century naturalist writing you see descriptions of beautiful rolling valleys and smokestacks, both marked as positive, because the smokestacks are man making his presence felt on a vast an unfeeling wilderness &c.
I should really check out Barfield at some point, given what you've written about him. Most of my thinking on these subjects comes from Xunzi (an old Confucian philosopher, ~4C BCE) and a bunch of German theologans writing in the first part of the last century - Paul Tillich, Rudolf Bultmann, and Rudolf Otto, among others. You should really check out Otto's Idea of the Holy, which discusses sacred time and space on the road to talking about the phenoomenology of Holiness; the first four pages of Bultmann's essay "The New Testament and Mythology," meanwhile, break open the question of shifting world view in the context of the Christian theological and mythological universe. Very, very cool.
Also I've got a theory about milk and brownies, which mostly amounts to: cats are household gods. I'll write this up on my own blog rather than keep eating up your comments section, though.
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Date: 2009-03-26 04:46 pm (UTC)I should really check out Barfield at some point, given what you've written about him. Most of my thinking on these subjects comes from Xunzi (an old Confucian philosopher, ~4C BCE) and a bunch of German theologans writing in the first part of the last century - Paul Tillich, Rudolf Bultmann, and Rudolf Otto, among others. You should really check out Otto's Idea of the Holy, which discusses sacred time and space on the road to talking about the phenoomenology of Holiness; the first four pages of Bultmann's essay "The New Testament and Mythology," meanwhile, break open the question of shifting world view in the context of the Christian theological and mythological universe. Very, very cool.
Also I've got a theory about milk and brownies, which mostly amounts to: cats are household gods. I'll write this up on my own blog rather than keep eating up your comments section, though.