tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327944118434441355.post5801375960070530398..comments2021-03-23T04:43:41.399-04:00Comments on Ted Loder: Faith's Twin - #3Ted Loderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02756701498308768256noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2327944118434441355.post-64440061959843268802010-02-07T09:17:16.390-05:002010-02-07T09:17:16.390-05:00From my perspective as an educator, both in my lif...From my perspective as an educator, both in my life as a philosophy professor and now as a Dean, what you are emphasizing here - the importance of faith without dogmatism and courage without domination - point to two virtues, or excellences, that are difficult but critical to cultivate in ourselves and our friends, be they children, students or colleagues.<br /><br />I very much appreciate your articulation of a life that is committed to something bigger than us and yet unwilling to succumb to the delusion that we have an adequate grasp of that which is bigger. Of course, this recognition is only part of the struggle; the other side, as you note, is the courage to embrace uncertainty without reaching for support in the absolute.<br /><br />Cultivating habits of living, thinking, acting and related in this context, the human context, should be a central endeavor of all education, but it in the church or the university.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com