Category: theology
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Schaubert’s Laws of Fantasy Religions
Author’s Note: this post on fantasy religions was originally drafted for a handful of local writing friends with a more thorough catalogue. That piece was lost and due to some life circumstances, I rushed out this much less thorough piece for those friends assuming (wrongly) it would not circulate widely. I realize there’s a lot…
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Cormac McCarthy — Pater Noster in The Road
Cormac McCarthy has another theme that plays out in The Road more practically, one I hinted at at the end of the Inferno piece: is the Pater Noster truly something we all share or is it simply a phrase we all use for pater meus? Set aside for a minute that he’s going straight up…
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Stairway to Heaven — πίστει, ἀρετήν, γνῶσιν, ἐγκράτειαν, ὑπομονήν, τὴνεὐσέβειανφιλαδελφίαν, ἀγάπην
Wanted to talk a bit about the flowering of faith — the stairway to heaven — found in the additions of faith passage this morning. I’m sipping my tea at Think in the Financial District (have some errands to run at City Hall for a wedding I’m officiating for a fashion designer this fall). But…
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Hindu Monotheism : The Upanishads and Vedanta
Questions about Hindu Monotheism — often phrased rather bluntly such as “Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic?” — have cropped up of late. The answer, in a general sense, is either “it depends” or “whose monotheism?” or “which Hinduism?” Folks, at least according to the search trends, seem deeply concerned — even disturbed — that any form of Hinduism…
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George MacDonald Universalism against Hans Urs von Balthasar on Universal Salvation
Many a wrong, and its curing song; Many a road, and many an inn; Room to roam, but only one home For all the world to win. (Eve, in MacDonald’s Lilith) I want to put two eschatologies in conversation, that of Hans Urs von Balthasar on Universal Salvation and that of George MacDonald Universalism. The…