In conclusion, the far more troubling statement that Bloom makes is his claim that we moderns are separated by our cultural conditioning from the cultural conditioning embodied in the Hebrew Bible. If he is right, how can we hope to understand the biblical theology of the Hebrew Bible? We will need to use our imaginations and our sense of empathy. As we use our imaginations and our sense of empathy to try to understand the biblical theology of the Hebrew Bible, we will be trying to work our way, however gradually, out from our culturally conditioned world-as-view sense of life and toward what Lonergan refers to as historical-mindedness. Through our emerging historical-mindedness, we will try to understand and feel a kind of intellectual empathy for the world-as-event sense of life as manifested in the Hebrew Bible.
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