I should have read Rowan Williams a long time ago. His brilliance as a theologian has been mentioned by many, which I can now confirm first-hand. For example, in Tokens of Trust, Williams mentions that William Paley’s (in)famous watchmaker analogy isn’t very helpful, and goes on to say:
The one thing belief in a creator doesn’t say, […]
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Terry Eagleton has become one of my go-to authors for pure enjoyment in reading, as he takes on loaded topics with wit, humor and penetrating insight. He had the audacity to pen a book called “The Meaning of Life,” from which this quote comes:
Religious fundamentalism is the neurotic anxiety that without a Meaning of meanings, there […]
I just finished reading Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. On the whole, it wasn’t as bad as some responses have made it out to be, which is hardly surprising given the topic that he tackles. Much of the book was a disturbing tour through the dark side of religion, one that should disturb any religious […]
There’s an interesting new site out there called Dear God which is a simple collection of (often anonymous) submitted prayers. It’s kind of like Post Secret, but more healthy (in my opinion). Here’s the blurb:
Dear God is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes - and fears - through prayer.
It doesn’t […]
As I re-read it for my thesis, I must say that Jack Caputo’s On Religion has to rank among my favorite few books that I’ve read in quite some time. Caputo brilliantly unpacks how Nietzsche’s perspectivism has had some unexpected consequences:
…what no one saw coming was the way the Nietzschean critique undoes the modernist critique of […]
I just started reading Jack Caputo’s little book On Religion. It has what must be the best opening section of any book I’ve read for quite some time! After saying that “religion” in the singular means nothing, he lets loose:
By religion, therefore, let me stipulate, I mean something simple, open-ended, and old-fashioned, namely, the love of […]
