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- Bruce on Ode to a Cat
- Aslandad on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
- Rotating Pilgrim on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
- Rotating Pilgrim on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
- Rotating Pilgrim on “The overwhelming feeling I have about life is poignancy. A happy sadness.”
Tag Archives: Christianity
Joe The Peacock: How To Actually Talk To Atheists (If You’re Christian)
An atheist, Joe the Peacock, giving advice to Christians on their methods of evangelism. Note his use of a great GK Chesterton line.
Witnessing is interruption marketing.
It’s unfortunate but true – just about every method of “witnessing” to non-believers equates to human spam. To start, I’ll list just a few of the methods we all know about:
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Tagged atheism, Christianity, evangelism, marketing, spam, witnessing
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Søren Kierkegaard’s Pseudonymous Authorship
Søren Kierkegaard’s expansive set of texts are complicated enough without considering the ambiguity or duplicity that his pseudonymous authorship presents. Involving and reacting to Hegel and other contemporaries, moving in stages, and talking deeply about matters of faith, philosophy, ‘individuals’, and systems of knowledge, Kierkegaard’s work is already significant. Yet, a reader who reads the whole of Kierkegaard’s work straightforwardly as ‘the words of Kierkegaard’ will be misled by the interplay of his texts, and led to believe in a certain kind of development in his writing, a development from an aesthetic author to a religious author. Also, the definitions of words (i.e. “sin”) can vary across the works. Only by taking into account the pseudonyms and Kierkegaard’s authorial method can one form a strong understanding of his life’s work.
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Writings
Tagged Authors, Christianity, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Modernism, Plato, Postmodernism, Pseudonyms
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Michael Spencer on Victimhood and the Gospel
Spencer served as moderator on a panel at Cornerstone Festival this year discussing homosexuality. He posted reflections on the panel discussion on his blog, Internet Monk. He worried about urges to cast-off what is termed “heteranormativity” in order to allow the victimhood of an oppressed group become the arbiter of biblical exegesis. He then comments further on this idea:
“The mistreatment and oppression of various groups is part of the Biblical story and part of how God reveals himself in scripture, but when we come to the Gospel itself, there is a deep challenge to any idea of empowerment that is based on violence or being the victim of violence. The centrality of Christ and the cross signal a shift- for all of us, and for every group- away from our own victimization to embracing Christ as the ultimate victim through whom all of us are set free. We do not emerge from the New Testament as victimized groups.”
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Tagged Christianity, Exegesis, Heteronormativity, Homosexuality, Michael Spencer
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