The Opportunities of Digital Dialogue

Neo-thomism or neo-scholasticism is a tough nut to crack. One is always an outsider until one is not anymore due to having spent years in the conversation. I think what you are pointing out is that an interdisciplinary conversation of a certain type will take years to hammer out. Perhaps this is related to @Eddie point that BioLogos seems “tired.”

I’ve mentioned in other posts that I’ve really yet to see good interdisciplinary dialogue due to the fact that nobody really knows how to do it – there is no agreed upon method to model. Most academics tend to become rigid in their views, at least publicly, and become epistemic and ontological imperialists. Forgetting the first rule of PhD land if secular given us from Socrates, “I know that I do not know,” and if you want a Christian slant on it, “The beginning of Wisdom is the fear of the Lord.” Too often we try to make the other discipline more like our own.

We may be saying a few sentences to each other here, but the cumulative effect is nothing to sneeze at. I suppose the difference here, and perhaps this is part of the fifth way, is that it is happening in the public and in the open. If there are backroom conversations happening, they are administratively minimal. Or you’ll are really good at hiding them from us hoi polloi :smile:

@dga471 if dialogue has its limits, what are your thoughts about moving forward? What’s your endgame?

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