Approach Quote by George Pattison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It seems that just Being, the sheer fact of existence, that there is something rather than nothing, already inspires a wonder akin to religion.…

— George Pattison