Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 11:19:07 -0800 (PST) From: Marcus Wilker <marcus1-AT-vcn.bc.ca> Subject: readings/personal experiences p> Wou+8x3-c^iX-C-%5nld you be interested also in discussing the texts in e-Rnchr_x 9b5drelation to<i!"X youu]Hr > personal experiences? g,\||9Cy'~j8k Reading, for me, is already an intense personal experience, a place where it happens, ... so there's an immediate yes along those lines but maybe one that won't satisfy you. What are the two sides of the relation: a formal text that only speaks in generalities vs the plethora of naked secrets that could be brought into the light, in their shame, in their glory? or a protestantism, the battle cry "back to the text", in which a personal relationship through the text is the only authority, vs a catholicism, in which there is more hierarchy, but also more mystical goings-on? or the human-rights insistence that the personal be expressed vCFo_ne knows the text but does not necessarily read it?
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