FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Category: Religion
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Religion and Philosophy: The God Problem
The discussion continues over on Levi Bryant’s blog. Bryant agrees with me that Whitehead’s conception of God does not fall prey to many of the ethical and epistemological criticisms he…
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Science, Art, Religion: The Role of Speculative Philosophy in the Adventure of Rationality
I’ve just completed Isabelle Stengers‘ formidable but rewarding text, Thinking With Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts (2011). The final chapters concern the viability of Whitehead’s theology, specifically…
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Michael Persinger and the Extended Mind
I’d like to follow up on my recent post about Michael Persinger’s research on the non-local electromagnetic aspects of consciousness. There is a growing contingent of cognitive scientists taking what…
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Religious Dialogue as Soul-Making: A Prayer to Buddha and Christ
Why Religious Dialogue? Interreligious dialogue is not a distant possibility but a present necessity. This essay is a response to this need, but it is written also as an intrareligious…
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Buddhist and Christian Soul-Making
So far as I know, John Keats coined the phrase “soul-making” in a letter to his brother and sister in May of 1819. He writes: “…suppose a rose to have…
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The Spirit of Intrahuman Dialogue: A Meditation
The following is a short personal reflection written for a course on inter-faith dialogue with Prof. Jacob Sherman. ————————– “Any interreligious and interhuman dialogue, any exchange among cultures,” writes Panikkar,…
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Meillassoux and Post-Secular Philosophy
“So long as we believe that there must be a reason why what is, is the way it is, we will continue to fuel superstition, which is to say, the…
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Final Draft: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism
I finished the essay on the philosophy and anthropology of religion, called “Religion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism,” that I posted last week in rough draft form.…
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Religion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism
Religion and the Modern World: Towards a Naturalistic Panentheism “Dear people, let the flower in the meadow show you how to please God and be beautiful at the same time.…
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My response to ‘Why Did God Create Atheists?’ @ AlterNet
Why Did God Create Atheists? | Belief | AlterNet. …and my comment posted as a response: I believe Jesus answers some of these questions when he says that “the kingdom…
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Noospheric Evolution: Science and Religion
A few weeks ago, a contest put on by Discover Magazine was brought to my attention. The publication asked for short video submissions explaining evolution (by which they meant specifically…
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God is Three Things
People are always talking about God, but they use the same word for three different people. Call it the Holy Trinity if you must. God the Father, the Son, and…
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The Essence of Religion
Preface It has been suggested that all modern philosophy begins with doubt (JC, p. 80). When one philosophizes, they agree to take nothing for granted, and even to question themselves…
