tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post114866899431395914..comments2023-10-24T05:49:04.269-04:00Comments on The Chaliceblog: LINGUISTFRIEND PUZZLES OVER THE LORD'S PRAYERChalicechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148823542645785942006-05-28T09:39:00.000-04:002006-05-28T09:39:00.000-04:00Peacebang: Thank you, with the slight modificat...Peacebang:<BR/> Thank you, with the slight modification that a scholarly approach to religious texts and traditions is not exclusively Unitarian-Universalist. It is one of those endeavours that cut off religious groups in a wonderful way. Although sentiment and familiarity with particular texts and traditions may militate against it at times, this means that those of us for whom religous traditions have special significance do well to study them with the same objectivity as when we try to understand the rest of world. Of course, we do come to points where we have to go on hope, and faith, and love, or noone would ever have babies. Just sayin'. <BR/> Best wishes -<BR/> LinguistFriendLinguistFriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695715246663202212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148772811452218822006-05-27T19:33:00.000-04:002006-05-27T19:33:00.000-04:00Thanks, LinguistFriend, for reminding us that a sc...Thanks, LinguistFriend, for reminding us that a scholarly approach to ancient texts or traditions is hardly Unitarian Universalist (not to knock Stephen, just sayin').PeaceBanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431551457505981195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148702423346951592006-05-27T00:00:00.000-04:002006-05-27T00:00:00.000-04:00Dear Carlson: Thank you for noticing the slip...Dear Carlson:<BR/> Thank you for noticing the slip on the Rev. Sir John C. Hawkins. I had the book near me when I wrote that, likewise everything else cited, and I don't know how I did that, but such things sometimes happen. I don't know as much about Hawkins as I would like. He must have been quite a fellow. <BR/> I'm not sure that my note had a UU perspective, actually. UUs sometimes think my point of view too Christian, and Christians rarely accept me as such. I prefer to think that perspectives on such things are not UU, or Buddhist, or Christian, or Jewish, or Muslim, but the result of historical thinking about facts. Once that has been done, people can take a theological perspective, but my basic point of view here was that of a philologist, not a UU. <BR/> LinguistFriendLinguistFriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695715246663202212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148693430284606122006-05-26T21:30:00.000-04:002006-05-26T21:30:00.000-04:00Thanks for this interesting UU perspective on the ...Thanks for this interesting UU perspective on the Lord's Prayer (surely one of many, I suppose :-)<BR/><BR/>(By the way, it is J. C. Hawkins, not J. C. Scott who wrote <I>Horae Synopticae</I>).Stephen C. Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18239379955876245197noreply@blogger.com