Hermeneutical Humility T-shirt!

by Ben Sternke on October 31, 2009

This has to be the best Christian t-shirt ever:

God Said it

In case you can’t read it, it says:

God said it.

I interpreted it as best I could in light of all the filters imposed by my upbringing and culture, which I try to control for but you can never do a perfect job.

That doesn’t exactly settle it but it does give me enough of a platform to base my values and decisions on.

It’s a t-shirt that actually expresses some hermeneutical humility (a simple acknowledgment that I might not know everything, and that I might be reading more into the text than I realize).

I found it here, and it looks like you can get one for yourself!

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Maria October 31, 2009 at 5:25 pm

Though it does share the basic problem of all “Christian” t-shirts: it’s a statement apparently for public consumption that really only speaks to insiders.

Ben Sternke October 31, 2009 at 11:08 pm

Ha! So true, Maria.

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