{"id":32161,"date":"2015-10-24T06:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=32161"},"modified":"2015-10-24T06:15:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T10:15:38","slug":"fundamentalism-is-a-lack-of-self-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/10\/fundamentalism-is-a-lack-of-self-awareness.html","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentalism is a Lack of Self-Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The quote comes from Richard Beck\u2019s blog post \u201cEmotional Intelligence and Sola Scriptura.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Here is another excerpt from the post:<\/p>\n

[W]e all have a hermeneutic. The only question is whether you are\u00a0<\/span>consciously<\/i>\u00a0vs.<\/span>unconsciously<\/i>\u00a0using a hermeneutic. Fundamentalists are interpreting the text unconsciously. Fundamentalists are interpreting the text right and left, they are just<\/span>unaware<\/i>\u00a0that they are doing so\u2026\u00a0<\/span>
When your hermeneutic is operating unconsciously it causes you to say things like \u201cthis is the clear teaching of Scripture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026Basically, fundamentalism\u2013denying that you are engaged in hermeneutics\u2013betrays a shocking lack of self-awareness, an inability to notice the way your mind and emotions are working in the background and beneath the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n

I think statements like \u201cthis is the clear teaching of Scripture\u201d are psychologically diagnostic. Statements like these reveal something about yourself. Namely, that you lack a certain degree of self-awareness.<\/p>\n

For example, saying something like \u201cthis is the clear teaching of Scripture\u201d is similar to saying \u201cI\u2019m not a racist.\u201d Self-aware people would never say either one of those things.<\/p>\n

Self-aware people would say things like \u201cI don\u2019t want to be a racist\u201d or \u201cI try not to be racist\u201d or \u201cI condemn racism.\u201d But they would never say \u201cI\u2019m not a racist\u201d because self-aware people know that they have blind spots. Self-aware people know they have unconscious baggage that is hard to notice or overcome.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the same with how self-aware people approach reading the bible. Self-aware people know that they are\u00a0trying<\/i>\u00a0to read the bible in an unbiased fashion. Self-aware people work hard to let the bible speak clearly and it its own voice. But self-aware people know they have blind spots. They know that there is unconscious baggage affecting how they are reading the bible, baggage that they know\u00a0must<\/i>\u00a0be biasing their readings and conclusions. Consequently, self-aware people would never, ever say \u201cthis is the clear teaching of Scripture.\u201d Just like they\u2019d never claim to be unbiased in any other area of life, racism being just one example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click through<\/a> to read it in its entirety.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quote comes from Richard Beck\u2019s blog post \u201cEmotional Intelligence and Sola Scriptura.\u201d\u00a0Here is another excerpt from the post: [W]e all have a hermeneutic. The only question is whether you are\u00a0consciously\u00a0vs.unconsciously\u00a0using a hermeneutic. Fundamentalists are interpreting the text unconsciously. Fundamentalists are interpreting the text right and left, they are justunaware\u00a0that they are doing so\u2026\u00a0When your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,43],"tags":[3675,3676,4561,9854,9896,10355],"class_list":["post-32161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-inerrancy","tag-fundamentalism-religion","tag-fundamentalist","tag-hermeneutic","tag-quote","tag-racism","tag-richard-beck"],"yoast_head":"\nFundamentalism is a Lack of Self-Awareness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The quote comes from Richard Beck's blog post "Emotional Intelligence and Sola Scriptura."\u00a0Here is another excerpt from the post: e all have a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/10\/fundamentalism-is-a-lack-of-self-awareness.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fundamentalism is a Lack of Self-Awareness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The quote comes from Richard Beck's blog post "Emotional Intelligence and Sola Scriptura."\u00a0Here is another excerpt from the post: e all have a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/10\/fundamentalism-is-a-lack-of-self-awareness.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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