Category: Religion
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William E. Mann, God, Modality, and Morality
Vallicella, William F. (2016) "William E. Mann, GOD, MODALITY, AND MORALITY," Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers: Vol. 33 : Iss. 3 , Article 8. DOI: 10.5840/faithphil201633368 Available here. A long and meaty review article including a discussion of divine simplicity and Mann's approach thereto.
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Is Sin a Fact?
Substack latest. A passage from G. K. Chesteron examined.
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Membership Trends in U.K. Churches
I recommend this informative and characteristically well-written post by long-time friend and correspondent, Malcolm Pollack. It appears that among the wages of wokery are a decline in enrollment. Related: UK Christianity Out With A Whimper
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The Ersatz Religion of ‘Wokery’: What is to be done?
The short answer is that the cure for an ersatz religion is genuine religion. Colin Dueck in a review of Joshua Mitchell: So, what is to be done? Mitchell’s answer in American Awakening is the observation that an essentially theological problem requires a theological solution. If the destructive ersatz religion of left-wing identity politics rests…
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‘Spirituality’ and ‘Religion’
What explains the bien-pensant substitution of the first word for the second? I give three reasons. Substack latest.
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Simone Weil on False Gods
Over at Substack. If you haven't made the acquaintance of Simone Weil, may I introduce you?
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A Proposed Change to the Pater Noster
Substitute "Do not allow us to be led into temptation" for "Lead us not into temptation." For why on earth or in heaven would the Father of Lights want to lead us into the darkness of temptation? ……………… Vito Caiati comments: With regard to today’s short post, “A Proposed Change to the Pater Noster. I think…
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The Religion of Archeological Preservation
If Islam is the religion of peace, then it is also the religion of archeological preservation. Modus tollens or modus ponens? Images here.
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Divine Light, Sex, Alcohol, and Kerouac
Substack latest.
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Buber on Buddhism: Notes on a Trenchant Critique
Substack latest. Martin Buber's critique of Buddhism, and of mysticism generally, is formidable.
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The Infirmity of Reason versus the Certitude of Faith
Reason is infirm in that it cannot establish anything definitively as regards the ultimate questions that most concern us. It cannot even prove that doubting is the way to truth, "that it is certain that we ought to be in doubt." (Pyrrho entry, Bayle's Dictionary, tr. Popkin, p. 205) But, pace Pierre Bayle, the merely subjective certitude…
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Faith’s Immanent Value
Suppose you sincerely believe in God and the soul but that your faith is in vain. You die and become nothing. Your faith was that the curtain would lift, but it falls, irrevocably. My question is whether, and to what extent, that upshot would matter. What if there is nothing on the other side of…
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A False Religious Humility?
I wonder about the self-abasing humility of those at the extreme forward edge of the religious sensibility as personified by Simone Weil and others and as expressed in such locutions as "I am nothing" that one finds sprinkled about in devotional literature. How could I be nothing given my divine origin? Is the creature nothing…
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Doubting the Teachings of One’s Religion
I argued earlier that besides its salutary role in philosophy, doubt also has a salutary role to play in religion. But I left something out, and Vito Caiati caught it: I have been thinking about your recent post “A Comparison of the Roles of Doubt in Philosophy and Religion” and would like to pose a…