tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929683.post5424097627616856542..comments2008-03-30T21:27:17.708-05:00Mike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15978997781556741350noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929683.post-45712600636848279742008-03-30T21:27:00.000-05:002008-03-30T21:27:00.000-05:00mike,<BR/>I followed your comment on my blog over here to yours and I'm glad I found it! I'll have to add you to my list of blogs.<BR/><BR/>This is a fascinating synthesis you have going on here between midrash reading of scripture and emergents. I find it very useful.<BR/><BR/>Good to meet you, Mike!<BR/>peace,<BR/>Chadchadholtzhttp://chadholtz.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929683.post-56193358356190392952008-03-16T20:44:00.000-05:002008-03-16T20:44:00.000-05:00Interesting. Just probing it a bit. This is kind of like Schleiermacher who found the presence of God in aesthetic experience. But I wonder if our aesthetic sense of the sublime acts as an icon in that sense. I am not sure it gives us an actual glimpse of the transcendent as much as a feeling that there is something beyond our sensory experience of things that somehow regulates reality. In other words feeling and the actual existence of the transcendent I think can be confused rather easily...<BR/><BR/>But I do agree with the idea that anything can function as both icon and idol depending on the function one attributes to the object in question.Drewhttp://notes-from-offcenter.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929683.post-67751040731516332092008-03-15T13:07:00.000-05:002008-03-15T13:07:00.000-05:00Drew,<BR/><BR/>You never heard a song or saw a movie that gave you a glimpse of something transcendent? You have to have seen or heard something that made you feel love, or understand community, or simply want to be a better man.Mike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15978997781556741350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929683.post-51852223857228621452008-03-15T12:24:00.000-05:002008-03-15T12:24:00.000-05:00Just a question: How does pop culture build an awareness or sensitivity of the transcendent? Interested to hear how you work through that idea.Drewhttp://notes-from-offcenter.comnoreply@blogger.com