I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'.… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
However, in brief, I think the connecting of 'God' and 'Being' is one of these things for which there seems to be… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought… — 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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