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More and more, confidence is being mistaken for arrogance. To say that this is right and that is wrong is a social faux pas, and may result in the dread label of intolerance. What these language politics reveal is that the ‘arrogant’ person is simply she whose confidence does not lie in what a society of people asserts, but in an alternative source of authority or information. To cite God as my source, as Paul does in 2 Cor 3, is to question the reliability of human structures of authority and credibility – like citing Wikipedia in a scholarly essay. It invites derision, but the alternate source may actually be more reliable than the traditional. |
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Arrogance or confidence?
Posted in 2 Corinthians.
– Jan 12, 2012
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