“In the Scriptures the odd phenomena constituting the “Kingdom of God” are the offspring of the shock that is delivered by the name of God to what is there called the “world,” resulting in what I call a “sacred anarchy.” Consider but a sampling of its more saliant features. In the Kingdom, the last are [...]
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sacred anarchy
Posted in philosophy, theology on 28 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
history, guilt and future
Posted in moltmann, nietzsche, philosophy, theology on 7 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
history, guilt and future – pdf version (footnotes included)
I saw a shirt the other day that had a picture of several Native Americans on horseback with the text reading, “Homeland Security: Defending against terrorism since 1492.” How should I as a European-descended citizen of the United States react to this account of history? The same [...]
an existentialist ethic
Posted in philosophy on 8 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
existentialism. it is a way of doing philosophy that stares our often messed up human experiences in the face and attempts to extract meaning or lack there of from it.
this is the difficulty of ethics in our age. how can we find hope in the midst of never-ending wars. of child soldiers. of greedy economies. [...]