After completing N.T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God there is one question that is central, what exactly serves as the vindication of Jesus? He spends much ink in the second half of the book outlining what the eschatological/apocalyptic/messianic means in terms of 1st century Judaism and then how Jesus likely understood and redefined. Within [...]
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critical realism | or why I enjoy reading N.T. Wright so much
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
I have been reading through N.T. Wright’s major work in progress Christian Origins and the Question of God. I am a little ways into the second volume in the series, but from volume 1 and what I have read so far from volume 2 there is one thing which makes me keep reading with appreciation [...]
somethings never change | more Russell on Augustine
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Here is the concluding comment by Bertrand Russell (from A History of Western Philosophy) on St. Augustine and St. Ambrose & St. Jerome. It is strange that the last men of intellectual eminence before the dark ages were concerned, not with saving civilization or expellig the barbarians or reforming the abuses of the administration, but [...]
Yahweh = Dialectical Materialism
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
The following quote comes from Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy, it is the concluding paragraph of the section on St. Augustine’s The City of God. He is closing out his remarks on Augustine’s eschatology and strangely concludes with a connection to Marx and a further reference to Nazism—Russell is thinly veiling his antagonism towards [...]
reflections on che guevara on sustainability
Friday, 11 June 2010
I just finished a short biography of Che Guevara (Che Guevara: A Life by Nick Caistor). There is much I could say about him as a man, his ideology, and of course his military actions, though I will limit myself to some of his thoughts while working in Cuba post revolution. Guevara had a rather [...]