Friday, September 28, 2007

One can make room for the slaughter of a child within the ethical

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Fear and Trembling Some more notes from Kierkegaard . posted by Peter J. Leithart 1. In the Problemata sections of Fear and Trembling , Ki...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

El may have been a god in the Canaanite pantheon, while YHWH may have been a Midianite god imported, via nomads

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HOW TO READ THE BIBLE A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now. By James L. Kugel. 819 pp. Free Press. $35. Related First Chapter: ‘How to Read th...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Upcoming book on "Christology and Science"

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Christology and Science Pairing these modes of inquiry -- Christology and Science -- may seem odd to many readers, but I am increasingly con...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Nietzsche’s writings first made belief in cultural relativism truly possible

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Atheism in Philosophy: Marx, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche Marijo Cook Marxism At one time, Marxism appeared to offer a viable alterna...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Michael Polanyi built on the work of Henri Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin

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Viewed as a scientific system, Darwinism has some attractive features. Its great advantage is its simplicity. Ignoring the specific differen...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007

In Judeo-Christian America one finds the idea of equality before God and the law

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The Judeo-Christian Values of America By Ronald R. Cherry American Thinker 2007 Home September 15, 2007 Judeo-Christian Values have a fo...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Romanticism is a secularized expression of religious faith

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The Religious Roots of “Child‑Centered” Education by E. D. Hirsch , Jr. The Classical Teacher , Summer 2007 In my mind, progressive educa...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

Darwin makes several references to the Creator

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Religion advances despite science (and thanks to Dawkins) Today's arguments between science and religion are not constructive. Worse, th...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Freud speculates that one of the strongest human desires is to encounter God — or the gods — directly

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Defender of the Faith ? The Times Magazine By MARK EDMUNDSON NYT: September 9, 2007 In “Moses and Monotheism” Freud has something truly fr...
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