Word: prophetic
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...Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions," wrote the prophet Joel. That may seem the definition of the spiritual enterprise, but in the past few years it has not described mainstream religion in America or the rest of the West. Catholicism and the Protestant mainline have occupied themselves with the less glamorous task of figuring out how changing social norms on issues like homosexuality fit into visions seemingly codified long...
...prophet Joel certainly didn't have Tibetan Buddhism in mind when he addressed his Jewish audience in the 5th century B.C. But that's the beauty of the dreams and visions of religion: you never know who may have them next...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan was a great minder of Senate traditions and a stirring elected intellectual, perhaps Washington's last. But he sponsored no major legislation, was not the prophet he thinks he was--and never learned the difference between being right and being effective...
...Wiesel, as he came to the end of his discourse on the minor prophet Hosea, discussed Maimonides' interpretation of the marry-a-harlot theme. Maimonides, the greatest of Judaism's medieval philosophers, explained the entire business (God's commandment to marry a whore, Hosea's predicament) as a vision, a fiction, a fantasy, a daydream. Maybe so. If only this campaign were merely a daydream, an error of the American psyche, correctable by waking...
...happens, I woke in the middle of the night, and it came to me that there may have been, after all, some hilarious parable at work in my evening, some occult line drawn between the prophet Hosea and the coming election. For surely, said I to myself, our presidential politics (given the necessities of fund-raising) has become a form of harlotry. The Constitution commands us to choose a president as God commanded Hosea to choose a wife. Our predicament as voters has something in common with Hosea...