Sentences with phrase «post-critical naivete»

So what's post-critical naivete?

My favorite shorthand way of speaking about what post-critical naivete is with a single line from a Native American storyteller, which I quote in a footnote at the end of Chapter 1 of Meeting Jesus Again for The First Time, so you may be familiar with it.

Post-critical naivete is the ability to hear the Christmas stories once again as true stories, even though you're pretty sure that Jesus was born in Nazareth and not in Bethlehem, even as you're pretty sure that the magic star and the wise men themselves come from an exegesis of Isaiah 60, rather than reflecting historical memory.

That's post-critical naivete.

Not exact matches

Third statement: A major need within the church today, for ourselves, and those we teach and those we talk to is (and the sentence contains some semi-technical language that can sound jargony, but it's illuminating, so stay with me): to help people move from pre-critical naivete, through critical thinking, to post-critical naivety.