Who, among those blessed with extra cash, doesn’t remember their first Mac? Or first iPod? Or first iPhone? Or first iPad? Or, for that matter, their first visit to a sleek, modernist Apple store? Or first appointment at the Genius Bar? Will Steve Jobs’ death (on Oct. 5) restore us to agnosticism when it comes to [...]
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#26 No theology, no science–no joke!
Posted in God, Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Theology, tagged infinity, Karsten Harries, modernity, Nicholas of Cusa, perspective, science on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Science and theology are perceived, by some, as sitting on opposite banks of an abyss. They assume that the twain never can (or should) meet. But the separation between science and theology is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of the West. Until the Renaissance, science was barely more than a descriptive discipline, while theology, [...]
#13 Giving up Me-Centrism for Lent
Posted in Ethics, God, Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Spiritual Exercises, Theological Ethics, Theology, tagged Lent, Levinas, Me-Centrism on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Think you’re number one? Who doesn’t? Are you a narcissist? Hey, who isn’t? After all, our interior world is most vivid to ourselves. Who could possibly know and care for our well-being and happiness better than ourselves? A tidy amount of Me-Centrism is desirable (we Americans prefer to call it self-esteem), but in sloppy-sized doses, it turns [...]
#7 We fear not God, Who busts us not
Posted in God, Philosophy, Religion, Theological Ethics, Theology on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Oaths. This blog’s previous entry, “#6 So help me God“, described how, for a truly-honest person, oaths “give rise to no new duties.” For such persons, oaths “merely serve to awaken” the conscience. In some other world, truly-honest persons may exist. But let’s face it, that world is not our world. No perfectly, completely, [...]
#2 God: the mutilated word of appeal
Posted in God, Philosophy, Religion, Theology on December 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Do we administer CPR to God or leave God for dead? Even after the Holocaust, the Jewish philosopher and theologian, Martin Buber, refused to turn his back on God and walk (or run) away. Why not? He explained his thinking in his book, Eclipse of God: “['God'] is the most heavy-laden of all human [...]
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