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Category Archives: on Denial, Doubt, and Divinity
Occidental Ideas, Part 25: Peroration and Peregrination
A young man, recounting to me his university years, explained that he had initially taken some courses in philosophy and theology but, finding them nebulous, opted to embrace a career in a field of intellectual surety, in science. Internally I … Continue reading
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Can a Christian be an atheist?
They that have been reading my publications[i] ought to be able to provide my answer to this question recently put to me. But, lest I have not been sufficiently explicit, allow me to review the issues anterior to the answer. … Continue reading
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on Dogma and Science
As a child I lived in a world of my own. Nothing mattered. Nothing interested, except things ecclesiastical. An introvert without challenge or society, I was adrift in my own fascinations, sedate in my own bathos. I found the concretization … Continue reading
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on Heaven
I recently received a complaint that preachers talk about heaven but never discuss what one does in heaven. Succinctly put: one does nothing. One “IS” in heaven, one does not “DO” things in heaven. Before I attempt an elucidation of … Continue reading
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on God within, an eclaircissement for believers
I am informed that as a result of my last publication some have taken to their prayer desks with carcanets of ice to pray for me, the pantheist! Arise and desist. The rumour is false. To them that had such … Continue reading
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on Theology and Religion, Cult and Culture
First, theology is an endeavour of metaphysics dealing with the absolute as absolute and it is a critical examination of the practice of religion. Theology is always claudicate if it attempts to be one without the other. Second, religion is … Continue reading
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on Nature and God
I am familiar with the idea that theology is God coming to an understanding of self. I found this ditty of German Idealism egregious when I was an under-graduate and I think it still carries that cachet. But I find … Continue reading
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