When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and… — George Pattison Copy Share
It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin to religion. But - as in my comment about the Kingdom of God in the last answer - Jewish and Christian traditions are also prepared to challenge what 'is' for the sake of what could be. — George Pattison Copy Share
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the… — George Pattison Copy Share
When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and… — George Pattison Copy Share
But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start,… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers… — George Pattison Copy Share
I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Essentially I see the new atheism as largely part of the crisis of the left. Having failed to carry through its agenda in relation… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives… — George Pattison Copy Share
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