one area especially lacking courage is Bible translation. Many translations do not convey exactly what the original biblical languages–Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek–say. In this way translators avoid shocking people by making the Bible seem like one book with internal consistency, rather than an anthology, exhibiting developments of doctrines and a concomitant inconsistancy.
— Hector Avalos, quoting Michael Coogan in The End of Biblical Studies, 47.
Augustine presents us with a model of humility and religious toleration, in which those who say that they know who is saved and who is damned, or who judge a ruler or a neighbor solely based on the church he attends, only distance themselves from the City of God, while fracturing and damaging the City…
— Kim Paffenroth on Augustine's City of God
This is a book review of Roth, Robert J. American Religious Philosophy. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.
Love is essential; everything else is secondary. Once the primacy of love is forgotten, religion becomes a test of belief and salvation depends on correct metaphysics.
— Robert J. Roth, American Religious Philosophy
shipwreck and dissolution are not the absolutely final things.
The appeal to history is the appeal to summits of attainment beyond any immediate clarity in our own individual existence. It is an appeal to authority.
Plato was the first great, and enthusiastic, theologian. Why is God required? Because there are many souls, or individuals endowed with self-motion, and there are also inert things that by themselves would never move or change. How, Plato asks, out of multiple self-motions and inert bits of matter, can one get an ordered cosmos with…
— Charles Hartshorne, The Zero Fallacy and Other Essays in Neoclassical Philosophy, p. 89.
Experience is in essence other than mere intellection and involves feeling, love, friendship, hoping, fearing, desiring, goal seeking.
— Charles Hartshorne, The Zero Fallacy and Other Essays in Neoclassical Philosophy, p. 88.
Simply denying finitude of God does not exalt deity; rather, it makes God less than the world, with the latter’s immense, and by us mostly unknown, treasures of beautiful finitudes. Sheer infinity all by itself is nothing recognizable as good or beautiful in any positive sense, “Formless, all lovely forms, thy loveliness declare,” taken literally, is mere…
— Charles Hartshorne, The Zero Fallacy and Other Essays in Neoclassical Philosophy, p. 86.
I decided to record a video discussing my class on Pascal’s Wager. I briefly describe it in the video and give some reasons why I do not believe it works. If you have any thoughts or comments, please share! Maybe a video log, or through facebook, twitter, or google plus!