tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22355935281254571902011-10-23T01:19:05.258-04:00<a href='http://books.google.com/books?id=4c-2oOi2fUgC&pg=RA1-PA114&dq="if it should ever happen that it led to no active measures, it would fail of its essential function, and would have to be considered either pathological or abortive."'><i>"If [thinking] should ever have no roots in the outer world, if ... it led to no active measures, it would fail of its essential function, and would have to be considered either pathological or abortive." --William James</i></a>S. Coulterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09871591426399844076noreply@blogger.comBlogger911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2235593528125457190.post-45148217780125214672009-11-23T11:24:00.000-05:002009-11-23T11:25:35.112-05:00

My big thought from Sunday school reading this week:The New Testament has four Gospels; three are "syn-optic" -- they see Jesus together but each with a different perspective. The fourth one is way out there with its own perspective (arguably).How is the Church (or my local congregation in particular) like the four Gospels? IMO: If we uphold the unity of the four Gospels as part of one book of

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Thoughts from theologian Ben Myers on baptism: (faith-theology.blogspot.com)"If you want to be ordained in order to become a really serious and committed disciple of Christ, then you have denied your baptism. If you want to be ordained in order to progress beyond ordinary d...iscipleship, then you have denied your baptism. If you want to be ordained in order to “serve the Lord full-time”, then

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I had this idea a while ago and forgot to post it here for discussion until today. The prompt for my doing so was its appropriateness as a response for this post on Halden's blog.Regarding the fact that 1 Timothy 2 roots its “I do not allow a woman to teach” doctrine in the creation narrative…. I had what was, for me, a bit of a brainwave the other Sunday. There’s another teaching in scripture

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OK, I know with a title like that I should watch out for people carrying pitchforks! :)But consider: first of all, "perfection" is relative. "Perfect" is often used to mean "complete", "not lacking in anything". Pragmatically speaking, however, we might use "perfect" to mean "entirely sufficient for ...". Notice the elipsis - the missing term. Hence the relativity of perfection; at least on

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1.Halden observes about 1 Corinthians 13's characterization of love that "Love Is F***ing Stupid". Kim Fabricius suggests a proper biblical-theological interpretation, namely: "Jesus is F***ing Stupid". As Paul might say, "For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1 Cor 1:25, ESV).Even those of us who have an impulse to joyfully and foolishly

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Halden has a couple of good posts on Christian political witness and anti-imperialism. Links below:A Plea for Anti-Empire Polemics (1/20/2009)"...not to say that critiques of Bush-style neoconservatism are wrong, rather it is that they are just far too easy. Any Christian critique of empire worth its salt must be able to do more than lob shots at the chicanery of the Bush administration. ... If

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(click photo to link to source)"There is no such thing as mind.""The brain has but one function: to move intelligently, or intelligent motricity." (very close paraphrase of a central thesis)"Life, a property of matter is, as are giraffes, inevitable." (direct quote from slide)"We are not descended from monkeys, we are monkeys." (close to direct quote)"Cells have personality!" Every individual

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On “Romance”(It occurs to me that it would have made sense for me to do this on Valentine’s Day. Oh, well. My curiosity actually arose from my reading my World Religions textbook on Monday, however—I was reading in the chapter on Christianity about Schleiermacher and romantic theology. My driving question: how are all the various uses in contemporary English of “romance” and “romantic” related

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I'm following a series of posts on reading Genesis 2-3 (two posts so far) by "RJS" at Scot McKnight's blog "Jesus Creed" -- see link in the right-hand column of this page.I want so share two bits of this conversation, and invite comment on related issues here (or on Facebook).This is a list offered by one commenter of problems that arise when one attempts to read Gen 1-2 "literally".Gen 1:-- the

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At Toledo Mennonite Church, we are spending 24 days (starting today, Feb. 9, 2009) together as a congregation studying the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, one article at a time.For more on the Confession of Faith, including a full text, go here.Here is the summary statement of Article #2, entitled "Jesus Christ". (Link to full-text):2. We believe in Jesus Christ , the Word of God

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At Toledo Mennonite Church, we are spending 24 days (starting today, Feb. 9, 2009) together as a congregation studying the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective, one article at a time.For more on the Confession of Faith, including a full text, go here.The title of this document is very deliberate. There is no definite article in the title; it is neither the definitive confession of

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I was asked in a comment on Jim Spiegel's blog (http://wisdomandfollyblog.com/2009/01/26/on-a-certain-irony-in-the-case-for-gay-rights/) to list some reasons that are given by Christians who view exclusive gay relationships as moral. I am responding here on my own blog because I feel I've already taken up too much space in Jim's comment section. :)Below I try to answer Elliott's question. I

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Link: "Against Empire, A Yoderian Reading of Romans", by Ted Grimsrud at peacetheology.netBig Ideas:1. Paul reinforces Jesus' anti-Constantinian stance. "For Yoder, Paul does not lead away from Jesus’ messianic ethic. Jesus and Paul are not stage one and stage two of the development of Christian ethics that leads inevitably to Constantinianism. Rather, what is central to Jesus’ message remains

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Faith and Theology: It's a Boy! A Christmas Eve Homily by Kim Fabricius."Today the boy is neither the focus of a faith nor a justification for violence.... Today he cannot be used for anything, particularly to endorse our own agenda. Today he just lies there, wiggling. ... As for me, today I bring you good news about the God disclosed in this child, who happens to be the Word made flesh."(There

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I have been thinking about inerrancy (again) quite a bit recently. I heard informally about a prof in a religion department at a Christian college being discouraged by (some) other members of his department from continuing to teach there because his views about biblical inspiration and authority didn't line up with the Chicago Statement. This irks me. I read the Chicago Statement in Seminar in

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Prayers from friends will be appreciated over the next twelve days. I plan to submit a second chapter of my thesis that Friday, the last day of finals week.Pray for commitment, focus, and clear-headedness as I strive to make that deadline.(There is nothing else to this post.)------"Make me a channel of Your Peace."-St. Francis

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From Ted Grimsrud:Jesus’ God is not a God who demands repayment of every ounce of indebtedness. Rather, God is a God of abundant mercy. Jesus taught that debts would be released without any kind of payment (Luke 4:19). The nature of the salvation Jesus proclaims turns the debt motif on its head. His Jubilee theology does not accept the logic of retribution that portrays human beings having an

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Through Halden's blog, I today came across peacetheology.net, which collects some work by Ted Grimsund, who teaches theology and peace studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, PA.Among other topics, Grimsund has written on the topic of homosexuality. He has published a book with fellow EMU professor of theology Mark Thiessen Nation entitled Reasoning Together: A Conversation on

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See here:Coffee As A Means Of Grace - A Sip of Theological Humor------"Make me a channel of Your Peace."-St. Francis

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This is the first post of an intended ongoing series on biblical theology. 1. Here I propose an expression of theology I call "universal restoration". (637 words) This is intended as an interpretation of the central message of the gospel of the Kingdom of God. 2. To set up for future posts & interactive discussion, I specifically raise questions concerning biblical support for this theology

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Thanks to Win C. for creating this graphic and using it to link to this site. Very nice. :)I have been busily trying to cram in as much thesis writing as possible of late. (Although recently I have been getting stuck.)I have also been busy with other things, including:preparing to formally join Toledo Mennonite Church as a membercommuting to school by bicycle regularlyteaching World Religions &

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An unnamed friend and I are having an ongoing conversation about eternal judgment. Right now we're discussing the possibility of a post-mortem opportunity for repentance & saving faith.I think others will be interested in reading some of what I'm saying here (I'm an arrogant little SOB like that, as you know). :)However, as I don't have permission (I haven't asked), I'm not posting any of the

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I'm putting my longer albeit partial response to the article on homosexuality and Christian ethics which Sarah drew my attention to (see http://xanga.com/songsparrowsound/) here rather than on her blog, for space reasons.Just in case anyone cares…My thoughts on Justin’s article:Argument #1: "Our bodies were designed for heterosexuality."“God designed our bodies to interact in a certain way, so we

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Almighty God, who has given your only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.The Book of Common

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I'm just taking a quick breath in the midst of my present attempt to articulate (with concision!, and clarity) the problems with Blackburn's supervenience challenge to the moral realist (see Blackburn 1993, Essays in Quasi Realism, essays 6 & 7).Ben Myers has blogged in brief today on Karl Barth and a Christian theology of sickness & death (Faith and Theology: "Karl Barth on sickness, health, and

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I got my course evaluations for both Logic and World Religions today. A lot of it is what I expected. The majority of comments are positive, and a number of the negative ones are informative and helpful, or just confirming of problems I already knew about and want to address. One of the more helpful comments in World Religions, for example, said that there was more out-of-class work in World

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Below, I prove that if reductionism is true then the supervenience thesis is true.(See Simon Blackburn, “Supervenience Revisited” in his Essays in Quasi-Realism, 1993.)Reductionism: N (x)(G*x ⊃ Fx)Necessarily, for all x, if x is correctly described by a natural property description represented by G*, then x has the moral property represented by F.The Supervenience Thesis: N (∃x)(Fx & G*x & (G*x U

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(...Click below for full post)From The Martyr's Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght; translation by Joseph F. Sohm:Now the point will be to give the reasons why we have called this whole work, with all the persons contained therein, after the Anabaptists; from which, as the second question, might be asked: whether all the persons mentioned, confessors as well as martyrs, none excepted, confessed

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This is something on which I could use some help.Preface:“Entities” is to be understood in the broadest possible way. Entities may be existent or non-existent, simple or complex, irreducible or reducible, emergent or fundamental,[1] mental or non-mental, material or immaterial, etc. (Can you think of any significant bases I haven’t covered here?)Let’s use “naturalism” to refer to the

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I was awake early this morning so I came to campus very early, getting to Scott Hall around 7:00am. I found that the alarm was going off all throughout the building. So, I'm sitting in a computer lab in the Business Dept. this morning.Yesterday I got three books and an article on philosophical naturalism. (I'll probably only read the introductions to each of the three books). I may have comments

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I cycled to campus for the second morning in a row (the third time ever). I estimate it takes about 30 minutes (give or take 5). I saves me a dollar on bus fare and whatever I'd pay to ride a stationary bike at a fitness center (although I'm sure it isn't constant activity the way aerobic exercise should be--it's actually an easy ride). No rain today, so my tires are cleaner and my brakes are

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I have had a beautiful morning already. :)I missed the 7:30am bus, so I decided to bike all the way to the university (I probably got there ten minutes sooner than I would have if I had waited forty minutes for the next bus by my apartment).It was raining. :)It was a very good morning to cycle through the residential streets to the bike trail that leads to the UT campus. There were many green

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A Prayer to the Holy TrinityArising from sleep I thank You, O Holy Trinity, for because of the abundance of Your goodness and long-suffering Your wrath is not incensed against me, slothful and sinful as I am; neither have You destroyed me in my transgressions: but in Your compassion, You raised me up as I lay in despair; so that I might sing the glories of Your Majesty this day. Do now enlighten

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I've been reading a relatively new Orson Scott Card novel which looked interesting. I thought I was going to enjoy it for its philosophical depth after the first few pages, but it quickly became reminiscient of a pop Christian apocalyptic novel (right now Clowns of God is the only such book I would recommend to anyone). The book in question is called Empire, and it's about a near-future

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This morning I heard a story on BBC News Hour (on Michigan Radio) about a woman who forgave her daughter's killers. Apparently her daughter was killed in her 20s, in 1993, in South Africa, where she was working nonviolently for freedom in South Africa. Her killers were also freedom activists, but did not believe in nonviolence (and they apparently didn't know whose 'side' the woman who was killed

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Worry is silly, really.I was just about to post briefly, requesting prayer because I am mentally very tired this morning, feel anxious about how much thesis writing I can really get done in the next few weeks, and am being strongly tempted to worry about money.Part of the reason for my worry had to do with an email I had read a few minutes before. However, I received another email just as I was

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Listening to Rev. Wright: On Point (NPR, April 29, 2008)Please listen to the above show!!!(Political Rant Warning!)There was a really great show on Michigan Radio (NPR) on Tuesday night which seemed to be devoted to discussion of Rev. Wright. I loved it! It was a white (I assume, but I guess I'm just going by accent and presupposition) NPR pundit letting two black religious scholars (as in each

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We used to think the earth was the center of the universe.Then Copernicus came along (so the story goes).As a result of the Copernican shift in cosmology, modern man (who is younger, therefore, naturally, intellectually "brighter") came to see that human beings and our little planet are but a miniscule corner of a grand universe; not only are we not the cosmographical or gravitational center of

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Here's a small challenge:Demonstrate the following without using conditional or indirect proof. (Conditional proof makes it way too easy!)1. (A ⊃ B)2. (A ⊃ (B ⊃ C)) / ∴ (A ⊃ C)Rules you can use (see full post):MP (p ⊃ q), p, / ∴ qMT (p ⊃ q), ~q, / ∴ ~pDS (p ∨ q), ~p, / ∴ qHS (p ⊃ q), (q ⊃ r), / ∴ (p ⊃ r)CD (p ⊃ q), (r ⊃ s), (p ∨ r), / ∴ (q ∨ s)Add p, / ∴ (p ∨ q)Simp (p · q), / ∴ pConj p, q,

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I heard this from my sister:There is a report among some politically active fundamentalists that a philosophy professor threatened to reduce a student's grade or prevent her from passing a required gen ed course if she did not personally accept that the existence of God cannot be proven...see link below.http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?id=605A semester or two ago, on a Logic assignment

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I've been enjoying grading the world religions papers for the most part.But lately I've been having trouble staying awake.I didn't sleep enough last night or the night before (in neither case because I was staying up grading, unfortunately).And some papers seem easier to grade than others--big surprise!Aside from that issue, one paper compares and contrasts Mormonism (that is, LDS) and

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It is really challenging to attempt to summarize Jesus' life and teachings for a single lecture's content in World Religions!I feel that I have to leave stuff out not only because of time constraints, but to make it somewhat comparable to my (minimal) coverage of other important religious figures I have covered in this course, just in the interest of fairness.It is really hard to decide what to

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The Lord is Risen Indeed!From Kim Fabricius, Ten Propositions on the Resurrection8. It is characteristic for the risen Christ to greet his disciples with the word shalom: “Peace be with you!” He calms their fear – of retribution, perhaps? After all, these were the men who, despite their protestations of loyalty, had abandoned their master to his fate. Perhaps now it was payback time for their

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(The full post is displayed.)This was on John Stackhouse's blog, Feb. 17th, among other similar items, under the heading "Church Bulletin Classics""Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King."For meditation:When have we as individuals, and as the Church, followed Christ in His submission to death at the hands of

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(alternate post title: Maundy Thursday Reading and Discussion of Christian Pacifism)(The full post is displayed.)Looking for a little Maundy Thursday reading late this morning, I followed this link on M. Anderson's blog, where I found this post (dated today, March 20th, containing a hymn by Kim Fabricius), which led me both to this Maundy Thursday sermon by Kim Fabricius, and to this series of

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(...Click below for full post)From The Martyr's Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght; translation by Joseph F. Sohm:OF THE NAME: ANABAPTISTS.*The name "Anabaptist" was really not accepted by them by choice or desire, but of necessity; for their proper name, if we consider well the thing in connection, should be, Christ-minded, Apostle-minded, or Gospel-minded (Gal. 3:26, 27, 29), as they were called

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(...Click below for full post)I learned some new HTML codes today for symbolic logic:&sim; ∼&middot; ·&or; ∨&sup; ⊃&equiv; ≡&there4; ∴&prime; ′&Prime; ″&forall; ∀&exist; ∃&harr; ↔&hArr; ⇔&ne; ≠&infin; ∞You can also make any Greek letter, capital or lower-case this way:&amp;phi; φ&amp;Phi; ΦI still haven't found really great symbols for modal logic, but I guess we could use these for "possible":&

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(The full post is displayed.)I have been officially rehired as a seasonal teacher for the Institute of Reading Development, for summer 2008! :)------"He Himself is our Peace." (Eph 2)

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(...Click below for full post)My class of 45 World Religions students are supposed to have submitted their paper topics for approval today (actually, the syllabus said last Thursday). Most of them have managed to do so, but there are some stragglers.I'm looking forward to reading their papers--moreso, I'm looking forward to their learning experiences as they go through the process. I hope to

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From The Martyr's Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght; translation by Joseph F. Sohm:OF THE TITLE OF THIS WORK: THE BLOODY THEATRE OF THE ANABAPTISTS, etc.The first part of the title, consisting of the words, THE BLOODY THEATRE, will, we think, not be subjected to any serious criticism, since no one can dispute that all that is treated here, so far as the martyrs are concerned, is a representation

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From The Martyr's Mirror by Thieleman J. van Braght; translation by Joseph F. Sohm:(Note: You must click below to read the full post. As it appears on the main page it is incomplete.)AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION: SUMMARY OF THE FOLLOWING WORKThis work comprises two books, each of them containing a different and independent topic. The first is a treatise of the holy baptism and of that which pertains to

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This link courtesy of my mother (who first brought my attention to the fact that today is π day):http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7296224.stmAlso visit:The Wikipedia Article on Pi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiDavid Blatner's website devoted to Pi (the author of the article above andthe book The Joy of Pi (which I have not read):http://www.joyofpi.com/Pi to one million decimal places

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Two Sundays ago, I allowed myself to be caught up in a rather lengthy discussion with a certain fellow: friendly, loud, boisterous, and firm in his convictions. The discussion concerned believer's baptism vs. infant baptism, salvation, and a certain view of Church history which, I learned, is put forth in an Anabaptist classic, The Martyr's Mirror (1660). This view of history a Wikipedia

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Comment left by michael:What are your thoughts on this post? Not so much the musings on the church calendar, but on Hauerwas' provocative comments.I'm moving this to a new post for my response because I didn't think it connected closely enough to the post it was commented on.(1) I haven't read much of Hauerwas, so I have no way of telling if this is normal rhetoric for him or not. It seems

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Something seems seriously wrong with some Toledo citizens' perspective on the relationship between the local civilian government and the national military. And it truly does frighten me.I don't usually comment on local politics, but here's what's been going on the last several days. The Mayor of Toledo, Carty Finkbeiner, issued an order a few days ago revoking permission for a company of US

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I read the first two Philip Pullman books (His Dark Materials series, vol. 1: The Golden Compass (US title)/Northern Lights (orig title), vol. 2: The Subtle Knife) over the weekend.Here are a couple of observations: - both novels become the most explicitly and provocatively theological in the last scene or two. These tend to be the most disturbing (for me) parts of the books. The rest of them

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This was Thursday evening's lesson, in two parts:(1) Why you should not hit potholes that are 4-8in deep with a circumferance bigger than your wheel's contact with the road at 25-35mph.(2) Why it is convenient to have switched a few short weeks before to an auto shop located halfway on the route between the university and one's apartment.Kudos to Sarah for making it safely into the shop's parking

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I've been brushing up on my Buddhism lately, preparing for World Religions lectures.I've found occasional (relatively rare) terminological errors in the first edition of Neighboring Faiths already this semester (for example, the term "advaita", which means "non-dualism" is used where "avidya", which means "ignorance" should be on p. 198). I found my first mistake in Dr. Corduan's Pocket Guide

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I want to draw your attention to two articles in the Feb 2008 issue of CT. I'll start in this post with just one.Intertwining of Movements within "Younger Evangelicalism":ancient-future, new monasticism, emergence, Anabaptism, Catholicism, and OrthodoxyFirst, the cover story "The Future Lies in the Past", which is one writer's take on the ancient-future movement. "Ancient-future" was a new term

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Currently in Toledo, OH:Mostly Cloudy and Windy. 16 degrees Farenheit. Feels Like -3 degrees Farenheit.weather.comI see that it is 15 with a -2 windchill in Upland. Pretty close to us.I guess I should be thankful that I don't live in Chicagoland!! 4 degrees with -15 chill in Deerfield!! Ouch!St. Louis, on the other hand, makes me jealous: 23 with a 16 degree chill. !I'm riding the campus bus as

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To ponder:What do you think the connection, conceptually speaking, is between moral wrongdoing and sin? Are the categories of moral wrongdoing and sinful behavior coextensive? Does sin include anything that is not immoral? Does immorality include anything that is not sin?If moral wrongdoing and sinful behavior are coexstensive, is there a strong intensional synonymity between the adjectives "

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday. As you probably all know.I encourage you to do something about it.Becoming more educated about the current state of race relations and race politics in this country is really important for deep-seated theological and moral reasons, in my opinion.------"He Himself is our Peace." (Eph 2)

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World Religions class is fun for me right now, although I still worry that the students may be bored with my lecturing for over an hour with little interruption.(Advice/suggestions on how to make this class more interactive in the classroom would be welcome!)I talked about different psychological and anthropological theories of religion on Tuesday. I was concerned going into the class that I

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What is it that makes these judgments not examples of moral/ethical judgment?And, what would you call these judgments isntead (chauvinistic judgments)?I am trying to get at something essential to moral discourse here.You should support Italy for the World Cup title this year.You should support OSU against UM in the upcoming game.I would like a more or less thoughtful response from all of my

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So I was scheduled to begin teaching an Intro to Philosophy class on Monday at 10:00am. I received an e-mail from the dept chair dated Tuesday warning me that it was possible that I might lose that class and be assigned a Logic class instead due to enrollment issues (I think there were enough in the Intro class; the issue was that other, more important faculty were being denied their first

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That I bother to state this may be an embarrassing confession of my own detachment from this particular evil, if not my ignorance of the fact.I was struck by these statistics reported in ChristianityToday's January 2008 issue (their source was the FBI):Number of Anti-Jewish hate crimes reported in the U.S. in 2006: 967Number of Anti-Islamic hate crimes reported: 156Combined number of

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I read through Joshua this week. I feel quite confirmed in my assertion that JWT does not allow us to morally approve of the Israelite conquest. No distinctions are made between combatant and non-combatant; the Israelites (apparently in obedience to YHWH), put to death "everyone that breathes", including women and children. So, whether pacifist or just-war theorist, a Christian must come up

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I spent the first part of my afternoon doing some online research on nearby religious groups, especially in Eastern traditions (Hinduisum, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Daoism). I didn't really have much luck with Daoism, although I did find a local "Taoist Tai Chi" place--I'm not sure if it would count as a religious-studies oriented activity to visit there. I also found out some info on the

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Sarah got a recruitment flyer in the mail today from the U.S. Navy. It offered her x amount of dollars for school together with an opportunity to become a navy officer. I found this amusing on more than one level. We decided that the U.S. Armed Services should be required to offer equal amounts of student financial support to C.O.'s who do C.O. service (or who sit in jail if the government

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I just talked to the dept. chair, and I learned that I will be teaching Intro to Philosophy and World Religions next semester!!!!!!!!!!!!!The (slight) downside to this is that it means two new preps while I'm still scrambling to finish up my degree. I'm not sure whether prepping for these lecture courses or for Logic will be more time consuming. Oh, and I get to choose my own textbooks! :)

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And now for something completely different…So I got Dr. Charles’ new book via OhioLink today…and my initial reaction to it, I am somewhat ashamed to say, is violent anger. J Disclaimer: there might be some ranting in the following! These are my thoughts/initial reactions as I just begin to read the book (I really haven’t got far yet. It may be illuminating to compare these thoughts to my

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Reflections onThe Politics of Jesusby John Howard YoderI1. Christocentric Ethics: The Normativity of Jesus in the Gospels(from ch. 1, “The Possibility of a Messianic Ethic”)At a popular level many Christians appeal to Jesus as a model for life and for right action. When I was a teenager (what seems like a very few short years ago), Christian teenagers were being taught (by the advertising media

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Now Reading:The Politics of Jesus, by John Howard YoderI have gotten about 40 to 50% of the way through the book by now. For those who don't know, John Howard Yoder was a Mennonite theologian who taught at Notre Dame and the Mennonite seminary in Elkhart and wrote many books during his academic career. One of his noted students is Stanley Hauweras. Yoder himself was a student of Karl Barth at the

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Does anyone know the answer to this question (and could you provide a reference to confirm it)?When one is making a bibliographic entry for a book published by Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, (1) when does it matter, if ever, that one specify "Clarendon Press" or "Oxford University Press", and (2) when, if ever, does one give "New York" or "New York and Oxford" or "Oxford and New York"

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Movie reviews aren't usually my blog post of choice. But last night we watched Evan Almighty for the first time. I thought it was overall rather stupid (but good enough to watch once). I thought that the extra features on the DVD about making the movie a "green" film were interesting (i.e., making the ark recyclable, and giving the used materials to Habitat for Humanity, and planting trees to

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressivismI made my first contribution to a wikipedia article today, and was invited to join the philosophy / ethics taskforce(s). This is probably not the best use of my time, though. Motivation has been lacking the last couple of days in general.------"He Himself is our Peace." (Eph 2)

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http://gandalf83rss.blogspot.com/2007/10/common-word-between-islam-and.html------"He Himself is our Peace." (Eph 2)

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Ponderance of the day:What is the relationship between metaethics and normative ethics? What are our purposes in metaethical inquiry? I suspect they are at bottom practical purposes, the same practical purposes at the root of our first-order ethical inquiry. If one of the primary functions of a metaethical theory is the *justification* (not merely the description) of first-order ethical

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I sent my paper in on Monday after rewriting the ending a few times. However, I think it was not properly submitted, because I could not find the e-mail address (I was not at school where the flyer was). I sent the paper to the department e-mail address on the website of the hosting university, but this was not the correct address for paper submissions. Oh, well.I am writing a paper this week (

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Since last Monday I have been focusing my energy on teaching and on writing a paper on expressivism and relativism that I want to submit to a graduate student conference (the deadline is Monday the 15th). My argument in the paper is this:V. Why Expressivism Must Either Relativize or Deny Moral Truth1. A nonrelativistic account of the truth and falsity of moral judgments must admit nonrelativistic

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Jerry Fodor has argued that we never really learn new class-concepts; we only learn new vocabulary for class-concepts we already have. For example, if you show me ten things and identify some as "flarn" and the others as "non-flarn", I might learn that the class-concept "flarn" applies to everything that is a flat, green, rectangular or triangular shape. I already had the concept of FLAT+GREEN+

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I caught a kind of second wind after posting yesterday evening. Writing and/or saying what I'm thinking can really be helpful when I feel upset or out of control, or like giving up.I submitted two papers from the end of the Fall 2006 semester--one each to the two conferences whose deadlines were yesterday. So I feel like I didn't give up after all.The James paper is behind me however the grade

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This evening I handed in a paper that has been due since December 2005. I feel discontent. Perhaps this is a typical symptom of Type-A personalities who write philosophy papers, or who regard themselves professional students. In some ways I feel like my writing improved over the course of the last six or seven weeks. But I had much higher ambitions for this paper. It just would take too much

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(P1) Judgments of value are non-(correspondence-)truth-apt because value-realism is false.(P2) Judgments of fact are (correspondence-)truth-apt because (physical?-)realism is true.Rebuttal to (P1) & (P2):Our full cognitive-affective capacities are involved in every factual judgment we make about the way the world is. That is, evaluative and factual judgments are not separable in ordinary practice

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The Christian author, Madeleine L'Engle, died on the 6th of this month, I just found out.Here is a tribute to L'Engle by her friend and editor Luci Shaw (published on christianitytoday.com). There are links at the bottom of this page including past CT interviews with L'Engle, her personal website, and a news release regarding her death in the NY Times.The most memorable & meaningful books of

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OK, one week and several hours later, here's a brief update on last weekend and this week.The NW Ohio Mennonite Men's Bike-Hike was fun. I biked a little over 30 miles, I believe, on Saturday--mostly on a flat bike & buggy trail. We were in Holmes County, where it seems everybody is some kind of Amish or Mennonite. Hearing a little bit about the different groups made me feel a renewed sadness

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After a couple of posts containing no original material (but, of course, the selection and re-presentation of these sense-impressions is an original act of consciousness on my part!), I figure that I ought to give a personal update, as well.Today marks the end of the third week of classes here. I am *close* to finishing a paper that I wanted to complete by the end of this week, but I don't think

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http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/09/a-surge-of-prayers-by-jim-wall.htmlQuote:Next week, Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, will report to Congress on the progress of the troop "surge" and the war effort in general. That report promises to catalyze an intense national debate on the floor of the U.S Congress, in the media, and across the nation. Is it time to end

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Now Reading: Nevertheless: The Varieties and Shortcomings of Religious Pacifism, by John Howard Yoder (Scottdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1992).Ch. 2: The Pacifism of the Honest Study of Cases("Just-War Pacifism")"A second difficulty is that in many cases, having stated such a doctrine seems to have had the effect of excusing people from applying it carefully. They think the fact that there exists a

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While walking back from class this afternoon, I found myself reconsidering the teaching that we human beings don't deserve anything from God (or, at least, not a salvific, restorative relationship with God).The doctrine I'm familiar with, as I have accepted it in the past, states that because human beings are fallen, and because we fell because we broke the good relationship between us and God by

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This marks my first post on blogger. I was perfectly happy with my xanga site, but I find that I changed the password and cannot remember it after not having logged into it for nearly a month. And it was registered to my TU email, so....I hope everyone finds me here that is looking for me. :)Teaching Logic is going well. I have two classes this semester, sixty-two students in all as of Monday

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