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...this lens, “The Prophet’s Wife” is one theologian’s attempt at rational rapprochement with the Bible, and in this case, the idea of inspired prophecy. It is a move from the original prophetic intonation of “thus spake the Lord” to “thus spake my heart.” There is a distinct tension between...
...Thus spake the sage of the sagebrush...
...about adults behaving like children. That doesn't mean adults have to be serious all the time. It does mean that they should recognize when it's time - and what it means - to grow up and let the kids run their own holiday. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ..." wrote St. Paul to the Corinthians. "But when I became a man, I put away childish things." Paul had never seen plastic pumpkins going "Whoooooooo ..." but you can bet that if he had, he would have told...
Whatever his intent, his methods are working. "I don't want them to have too great a record now," Jackson laughs. "Growth is what's important." If Jackson ever gets around to giving his Uberman Shaq Thus Spake Zarathustra, the rest of the Lakers' opponents could be in even bigger trouble than they...
...though, in Eliot and other 20th century poets and novelists, lay in the prominence of the pronoun I--the center of relativistic thought. Thus spake the confessional poetry of the 1960s, the memoirs in the 1980s and 1990s, the prominence of the narrator in all of modern fiction. A commonplace paradox that was soon to characterize fiction was that the antihero, who was beset and disempowered by modern bureaucracies and machines, was simultaneously exalted by his diminished status...