tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post8234923700595546670..comments2024-02-19T05:09:00.099-06:00Comments on Lutheran Confessions: Get Thee a Mentor: Theoria, Praxis, and PoeisisClint Schneklothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00707900080657719369noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-51800479865495128872013-08-30T22:43:46.224-05:002013-08-30T22:43:46.224-05:00What was Jesus? Creative, theoretical, fixing thi...What was Jesus? Creative, theoretical, fixing things (like the world).. hmmm <br /><br />Peace, <br /> Janet Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13034041400330337270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-8679150389455487022013-08-30T13:53:37.087-05:002013-08-30T13:53:37.087-05:00Love this post. I'm guessing my primary mode i...Love this post. I'm guessing my primary mode is poiesis tempered by praxis, all of which is eclipsed by my deep commitment to line editing. Make sense? Meredith Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260267368064065843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-63063077910853502792013-08-30T08:44:22.612-05:002013-08-30T08:44:22.612-05:00Thanks for the conversation, Matthew. One thing an...Thanks for the conversation, Matthew. One thing another mentor told me one time: "For some people, there is a division between heart and mind. For you, your mind and heart are the same thing. Which is why really deep intellectual inquiry can often bring me to tears.<br /><br />So similarly, I wonder if there is a kind of poiesis that is theoria focused? Still working on that one. <br /><br />Yes, a both/and.Clint Schneklothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00707900080657719369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-39122148936290223382013-08-30T08:25:39.609-05:002013-08-30T08:25:39.609-05:00I will definitely affirm, from what I've seen ...I will definitely affirm, from what I've seen of you, your balance among these three, but your strong draw to the poietic rather than the practic. Both of these terms act in semi-synonymous ways as "doing," for example in Romans. But <i>praxis</i> is acting or implementing, where <i>poiesis</i> is making or inventing.<br /><br />I think everyone who knows me knows my dominant mode is <i>theoria</i>. :) Much as I enjoy <i>praxis</i> in my alter ego as someone who takes things apart and fixes them, even my <i>poiesis</i> springs from <i>theoria</i>. But might I say, you seem to have written a statement that it takes a theorist, rather than a practitioner or a poet, to decode?<br /><br />Is your stability grounded <i>in</i> the plastic/elastic context, or against it? I take it that your commitment to stability is intended to support this husbandry of creative fringe communities.<br /><br />From what I know of you, it's probably silly to ask whether you mean the communities or the husbandry activity "for the healing and freeing of the world"—I assume it's both-and.Matthew Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232613079168523464noreply@blogger.com