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Showing posts with label Metaphysics. Show all posts
20 September 2018

Pentecost and the Framework of Redemptive History: Prolepsis, Asynchronicity and Eschatological Ethics (Part 1)

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What is the significance of Pentecost? It was the occasion in which the Holy Spirit descended on believers signifying the new age, the seal...
22 July 2018

A Study in Fools: Veneers and Big Questions

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https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/618217795/teaching-children-to-ask-the-big-questions-without-religion This NPR story caught my attention ...
01 March 2017

Ockham's Razor, Scepticism and Biblicism Part 5

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Recovering Authoritative Scripture and Questioning the Western Heritage

Ockham's Razor, Scepticism and Biblicism Part 3

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The Razor and Rationalist Views of the Text

Ockham's Razor, Scepticism and Biblicism Part 2

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Saving Faith and Scepticism

Ockham's Razor, Scepticism and Biblicism Part 1

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This is a re-working of a post from 2010 on Nominalism and Thomism. I have updated, clarified and expanded the original article.   I apol...
23 January 2017

The Rise of the New Religion

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/29/the-long-slow-death-of-religion/ It is not uncommon to encounter these types of articles and es...
07 January 2017

Riddles of Fundamentalism Part 4: False Fideisms, False Biblicisms and the Quest for Coherence

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It is at this point in the discussion wherein fideistic and anti-modernist labels that are used to describe many 20 th century movements su...
03 January 2017

Riddles of Fundamentalism Part 2: Epistemology, Social Context and the Charge of Anti-Modernism

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Industrialisation proved traumatic for Western society. Traditions, what we might call social forms of coherence, accepted norms, standards ...
02 January 2017

Riddles of Fundamentalism: Modernist Epistemology and the Question of Biblicism Part 1

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The other night I was watching the old Fess Parker version of Davy Crockett and found myself trying to explain to my kids his mannerisms and...
21 March 2015

Monistic and Dualistic Epistemologies, Consciousness and the Fiction of Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence is all the rage at the moment as the Computer Revolution prepares to take a leap into its next phase of developm...
16 March 2015

Negativity and Relational Epistemology

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In Epistemology we can speak of categories which help us to organize and identify both ideas and entities. These categories can be approache...
12 March 2015

Revelation and Nature (updated June 2023)

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The folks at Reformed Forum are always interesting. I enjoy their articles and listening to their podcasts. One of them recently posted a b...
22 September 2012

Philosophical Wanderings 5a

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These posts have generated some offsite discussion. I've been posting some of these exchanges. This is a continuation of the discus...
16 September 2012

Philosophical Wanderings 5- Is Logic Empirical?

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Continuing this discussion, a friend and I have been interacting via email. With all argument you tend to have to keep peeling back lay...
14 September 2012

Philosophical Wanderings 4

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The role of reason and logic in the realm of metaphysics....

Philosophical Wanderings 3

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** These discussions will not interest most readers. They will seem perplexing, pedantic, if not arcane and impractical. In the end wha...
16 August 2012

Philosophical Wanderings 2

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  Since these comment threads are so long, I'm just putting them up as posts. The comment module will only take about a page at a time...
15 August 2012

Philosophical Wanderings....A discussion thread that took on a life of its own.

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This is just an topically eclectic thread that has grown to the point that I thought I would just post it by itself and then we can cont...