Today we often assume that before undertaking a religious lifestyle, we must prove to our own satisfaction that God or the Absolute exists. This is good scientific practice: first you establish a prin...
Unlike Descartes, who had proved the existence of the self, God and the natural world in that order, Newton began with an attempt to explain the physical universe, with God as an essential part of the...
We are trying to retrain our responses and form mental habits that are kinder, gentler, and less fearful of others.
Yet it is perhaps worth mentioning that the masculine tenor of God-talk is particularly problematic in English. In Hebrew, Arabic and French, however, grammatical gender gives theological discourse a...
Changed the course of history, but the process was not yet complete. It was only when Jesus returned at the Parousia that we shall all be changed and death be swallowed up in victory.64 Then and only...
Included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.
Novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. If
Pre-Islamic period jahiliyyah, which is usually translated as the time of ignorance. But the primary meaning of the root JHL is irascibility—an acute sensitivity to honor and prestige, excessive arrog...
So Enki tells Atrahasis to build a boat, instructing him about
نفرط في أيامنا هذه، في الحديث عن الله، بيد أن معظم ما نقوله يتسم بالسطحية والتبسيط. نعتقد، في مجتمعنا الديمقراطي، أن مفهوم الرب يجب أن يكون سهلًا، وأن يكون الدين متاحًا للجميع، كثيرًا ما يقول لي القرّ...
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
Imaginaţia este principala facultate omenească la care recurge religia. Jean-Paul Sartre a definit-o ca abilitatea de a gândi ceea ce nu există. Fiinţele umane sunt singurele făpturi înzestrate cu cap...
But it was more than that. Paris represented life, sensuality, freedom, and fun. And that somehow made it impossible.
De profeet Jeremia [...] had zo zijn bedenkingen tegen een geschreven wet: de 'pen van de schrijvers' kon de traditie door een simpele schrijffout vervalsen en een geschreven tekst kon een oppervlakki...
Descartes’s argument turns out to be a reworking of Anselm’s Ontological Proof. When we doubt, the limitations and finite nature of the ego are revealed. Yet we could not arrive at the idea of imperfe...
During the 1950s, Logical Positivists such as A. J. Ayer (1910–91) asked whether it made sense to believe in God. The natural sciences provided the only reliable source of knowledge because it could b...
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, thoug...
He claimed gleefully that he had no opinions at all, because he had no self. A poet, he believed, was ‘the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity’.75 True poetry had no...
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one st...
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