[January 2004 journal entry]
I suspect that ideas dependent on a pre-modern worldview are smuggled across the hermeneutic bridge into discussions in modern settings when a presenter classifies a text such as Genesis 1-3 as ‘story’. Story is one among many ways to convey ideas. But the ‘story’ designation is not enough to cross the hermeneutic bridge. The ideas conveyed in a story that depend on a pre-modern worldview to be credible must be identified/critiqued. Not only may a metaphor be left behind (e.g., ‘king’, ‘sheep’), but also the idea/s carried by the metaphor (e.g., low/passive/dependent view of being human).