0:00 Title card 0:15 Follow along 0:35 10 to 11 sessions *The Hermenute* 1:10 The god Hermes 1:38 Translator of The gods, Communicator to Mankind. 2:50 Translating what I have experienced. 3:47 Participating in Common Reality. 4:22 Faith turns the hearer into a participant. 4:52 God found Adam naked in a garden. 6:47 Adam lived in a World with Two Trees. 7:11 We have Personal Stories. 7:54 The Story of All Mankind is a HUGE Story. 8:39 We don’t tend to think in terms of 10,000 year old culture. 9:13 Baby steps. 1 step at a time. 9:37 The Forward 9:59 Naked In a Graveyard 🪦 *Chapter 1* 11:03 Reading between the lines 11:25 St Luke Ch 8 Verse 6-39 14:44 Turn Aside. Consider the matter further. 15:30 A Demon-Possessed Man/A Demoniac is healed. 16:48 Calming The Chaotic Nature shows Jesus’ Power. ☦️ 17:36 Literal and Allegorical are not contradictory. Both can be correct. 18:02 Mystagogic Understanding. 20:34 Illumination. 21:10 Cognitive Awareness. *Page 23* 21:43 Visible & Invisible, Interpenetrated, Simultaneously existing world. 23:48 Sensible and Noetic Knowledge. 24:22 Ex. Staring at your hand ✋🏻 26:15 Cognitive Awareness. 27:54 Let Us Be Attentive. 28:21 Seeing what one had not seen. *Training Practice* 28:55 29:44 Western Cultural Values 30:08 Cultures cover large realities, large geographical areas. 30:30 Cultures define values of a people. 31:30 Cultures give us a worldview. 32:20 Ex. Botanical Culture • Old World Order overthrown by New World Order 33:53 Man and Woman, Life was circular, earthly, cyclic. 35:29 The Earth was feminine, Mother Nature. Women are to be tended to. Women bring forth life. Farmer and Husband was the same word. Moon 🌕was female. *The Greek gods* 39:20 The New Patriarchal World Order ⛰️ 41:23 Zeus’ illegitimate children. 🔥 45:14 The Patriarchal Culture. 47:08 We in The Orthodox Church pray 🙏🏼 for All Mankind. _Why are we discussing secular sources?_ 48:00 Good Communicators know their audience. 49:10 We have to learn what culture is to share The Gospel in our own culture. 51:29 The teacher has to think about (1) the students (2) the wider world of people outside the classroom. *The Patriarchal Greek World 500-400 BC* 🎭 53:23 The Greek Theatre. 55:02 The 3 Greek Dramatists ✍🏻 *In Our Neighborhood* 🏘️ 58:40 Our neighborhood 1:01:36 This is not dead history. It is important to watch cultural changes and figure out our way to experience these changes. 1:04:30 Knowing how to think in cultural terms. Let us learn how to think in such large ways. 1:05:55 (1) being prepared (2) being able to read between the lines, finding what is hidden 1:06:54 Training to read between the lines. If we learn this, we can move forward. 1:07:44 Credits