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… — 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… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
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… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
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… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
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… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
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