Aphorisms such as “the medium is the message” could, like mystical mantras, spin off a multitude of meanings, initiating in the process a multitude of new ways of looking at, exploring, feeling about, and adapting to technological change. Yet simultaneously, in keeping with McLuhan’s own ambivalent abhorrence of that change, it could encompass a... - http://jrandomhermeneut.tumblr.com/post...
Let no one think that, because the Psalmist says, “He established the earth above the water,” we must use this testimony of Holy Scripture against these people who engage in learned discussions about the weight of the elements. They are not bound by the authority of our Bible; and ignorant of the sense of these words, they will more readily scorn... - http://jrandomhermeneut.tumblr.com/post...