I am increasingly excited about the upcoming class OMG! Can we talk about God? This morning I extracted a portion from a video I made for the Deep in the Burbs project to be a stand alone visualization of Hans Georg Gadamer’s concept called The Fusion of Horizons. This, I believe, is an important part of the theological process. We must learn to listen and learn from each other. Enjoy!
Hans-Georg Gadamer was born in 1900 and died in 2002. One could say that he was truly a man of the 20th century. This is fitting since his life and work demonstrated the transitional nature of the 20th century as the academic disciplines made a turn from Enlightenment thinking to a postmodern sensibility. Gadamer’s presentation of philosophical hermeneutics was one of the pivotal contributions that brought about that turn. read more…
