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| | [[Image:800px-Crop Book of Isaiah 2006-06-06.jpg|thumb|300px|The Holy Bible]] | | [[Image:800px-Crop Book of Isaiah 2006-06-06.jpg|thumb|300px|The Holy Bible]] |
| − | '''Deconstruction''' is the [[postmodern]] or [[liberal]] belief that each person interprets a text in light of their own experiences, [[bias]]es, and [[prejudice]]s.<ref>Noebel, David, ''Understanding the Times'' (Summit Ministries, Manitou Springs, Colorado 2006) ISBN 978-0936163000.</ref> Thus, no text can have the same meaning for all [[people]]; a text's [[message]] depends entirely upon personal interpretation. Deconstruction holds an individual's interpretation of a text to be more important than the text itself. | + | '''Deconstruction''' opens up the "nutshell" of an idea and destroys what it finds there. |
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| | + | {{quotebox|Deconstructionists take things apart and look at them from many different perspectives. At some point, they insist that there is no grounded perspective, that all perspectives compete, and that we can ill afford to choose one over the other. This led us to the concept of pluralism and postmodernism. [http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/termsart.htm]}} |
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| | + | Deconstruction entails the [[postmodern]] or [[liberal]] belief that each person interprets a text in light of their own experiences, [[bias]]es, and [[prejudice]]s.<ref>Noebel, David, ''Understanding the Times'' (Summit Ministries, Manitou Springs, Colorado 2006) ISBN 978-0936163000.</ref> Thus, no text can have the same meaning for all [[people]]; a text's [[message]] depends entirely upon personal interpretation. Deconstruction holds an individual's interpretation of a text to be more important than the text itself. |
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| | Deconstruction is a theory of interpretation favored by [[liberal]]s. | | Deconstruction is a theory of interpretation favored by [[liberal]]s. |
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| | == External links == | | == External links == |
| | + | *[http://www.orientalia.org/wisdom/Philosophy/Deconstruction.shtml Deconstruction] - a remarkably clear presentation by the ''Journal of Eastern Philosophy & Culture'' |
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| | *[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029711/deconstruction Deconstruction] Encyclopædia Britannica. | | *[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029711/deconstruction Deconstruction] Encyclopædia Britannica. |
| | *[http://www.bartleby.com/65/de/deconstr.html Deconstruction] The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. | | *[http://www.bartleby.com/65/de/deconstr.html Deconstruction] The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |