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<h2 style="margin-top: 50px;">Orality &amp; Literacy and the Life of the Soul</h2>
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<h3>March 26-27, 2026</h3>
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<p>The annual Orality &amp; Literacy conference at 91猫先生, inspired by Walter J. Ong&#8217;s The Presence of the Word and Orality &amp; Literacy, invites us to ask what are words and how do words work in the life of the soul? Written words and spoken words address us differently in spirit. Different religious ecclesiology&#8217;s privilege the written word over the spoken word with dramatic differences in how humans understand religious experience. As media scholars have observed, the book tends to individuate experience whereas a speech produces a sense of corporate belonging and affinity either for or against what is being said. Such questions are what we invite panelists to address at next year&#8217;s conference considering how human interactions are formed and cultivated depending on a bias for written or spoken words. Most importantly we will consider how this bias shapes our understanding of what is true, and how the desire to know truth mirrors the deepest longings of the soul.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The Law Written on the Heart: Intersection of Orality &amp; Literacy in New Covenant&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Transfigural Reading of Scripture Grounded in the Literal Meaning of the Text&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Quem Quaeritis? Passion Plays, Literacy, and the Shape of Medieval Spirituality&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;When the Medium is the Message and the Message is Divine: Rhetorical Signatures&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Why Should We &#8216;Know By Heart&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
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