Here is a quote from a book which has influenced my thinking in the theological realm as well as in the scientific realm: A Theologian, Eric Mascall, in his book Christian Theology and Natural Science, wrote […] that the point is that, although a physicist knows the objective world only through the mediation of sensation, … [Read more…]
In my previous post, Love and Stuff, Part 8: What Can Be Said About the So-Called Coronavirus Pandemic?, I wrote about some significant information indicating there is no true pandemic and provided pointers to that data and to comments by highly-regarded medical researchers and medical clinicians who felt similarly and have the data and the … [Read more…]
This blog entry is partly intended as a public service to the sane. I’ll first provide links to alternative takes on the So-Called Coronavirus Pandemic and then I’ll simply state some beliefs I already tentatively held about the likely fate of the West, beliefs reinforced by the current happenings in the various public spheres of … [Read more…]
In my previous essay ( Love and Stuff, Part 6: Personalities, Minds, Genetics, and Blood-shed in Western History), I relied heavily upon a book, Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, published recently by Professor Kevin MacDonald, an emeritus professor in psychology at California State University—Long Beach. A specialist in both the evolution of human psychological … [Read more…]
I am writing this essay shortly after finishing a good book, longish by modern standards, which discusses two personality types in European peoples—especially those of the Northwestern countries. These two types of aristocratic individualist and egalitarian individualist have formed the liberal orders of Europe. That book is Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition by Kevin … [Read more…]
Discussing “Jerusalem and Athens,” debating “Jerusalem and Athens”: such an age-old waste of time… Or is the true conflict(?) between: “revelation and observation,” “faith and rationality”? Conflict or a true duality of God’s Creation? With which duality men have dealt badly, most choosing but one part of a greater truth and rejecting the other part. … [Read more…]
I’ll start by quoting The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48, where that dictionary draws upon the 1913 edition of Webster’s dictionary for the particular terms of interest in this essay. (The reader is well-advised to pay attention to the definitions and maybe even contemplate their deeper meanings and implications because I’ll be moving fast … [Read more…]
We have with us always—in this mortal realm—various heresies which take too seriously the theological quandary: how could an all-powerful and all-good God have created a world in which there is so much evil? The great thinkers who have seeming headed this way, Isaiah and Jeremiah and Lord Acton as just 3 examples, have eventually … [Read more…]
There is something describable by the term `human nature’ and something else describable by the term `human personhood’. We’ve confused the two greatly in our modern world, so intellectually challenged in nearly all fields of thought but science and technology and so morally challenged in all fields including science and technology. To orthodox Trinitarian Christians, … [Read more…]
On 2019/02/24, Roman Catholics who attended the Mass for Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time (Cycle C) heard St Paul telling the Corinthians: It is written, `The first man, Adam, became a living being,’ the last Adam a life-giving spirit. But the spiritual was not first: rather the natural and then the spiritual. The first man … [Read more…]