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Responding to Overnaming in Academia

October 7, 2016 by Matthew Boedy No Comments

Matthew Boedy reflects on how we might respond to overnaming in academic life.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: communication, ethics, identity, labeling, language, naming, overnaming, power, sin, theory on language

A Response to Overnaming

September 30, 2016 by Matthew Boedy 2 Comments

After the fall, how then do we live? How then do we name?

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Overnaming as The Fall

September 23, 2016 by Matthew Boedy No Comments

In this post I want to dive deeper into the original ‘scene of the crime’ for clues toward the character of the relationship between language and naming.

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An Introduction to Naming

September 16, 2016 by Matthew Boedy No Comments

David [Dark] exposes that we assume names or labels can ‘take care’ of others. Names or labels can ‘solve’ mysteries, neutralize critics, and of course get us somewhere we want to go faster, hence the shortcut.

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