Terry Eagleton’s 2008 Terry Lectures at Yale University have been transcribed into a new book entitled Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate. It’s the first rebuttal to Dawkins and Hitchens (whom Eagleton reduces to the solitary signifier “Ditchkins”) that isn’t relegated to the Christian ghetto, but appears to be gaining traction outside […]
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As promised, here’s the question and answer session which followed my thesis reading. Various students and faculty members asked me a variety of questions. Thesis Question & Answer Feel free to chime in with any of your questions. Next up should be a chronicling of my post-grad trip to NYC.
If anyone is still reading this blog, I plan on beginning to write on here again. Expect posts related to my just-completed B.A. Honours thesis called A Restless Faith Seeking Reason to kick off catch-up-with-Matt’s-life mode here. Let’s begin with this audio file of my thesis presentation. The full and very descriptive title of my thesis […]
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 […]
The following quote will probably be gibberish to many people, as it’s loaded with insider philosophical language. If your eyes glaze over, you’re normal. If you don’t, you’re some strange little creature called a philosopher that thinks of their body as a transportation device for their head. Have pity on these poor creatures. If you’re still […]
In my current philosophical wanderings through the thicket of faith and reason, I’m starting to see some themes emerge. The following is a gross over-simplification, but it may serve as a helpful theological lens through which to view the postmodern turn in philosophy. The modern (Enlightenment) view of reason ignored the category of sin. The belief […]
