Tag: Apophatic theology

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 5, 2022

Categorized
Panpsychism, Religion, Spirituality

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Apophatic theology, Is Consciousness Everywhere? (book 2022), Panpsychism and belief, Persecution and belief, Philip Goff, Religion without belief}

Can Religion Without Belief “Make Perfect Sense”?

_{Philosopher Philip Goff, a prominent voice in panpsychism, also defends the idea of finding meaning in a religion we don’t really believe} _{Denyse O'Leary

September 5, 2022

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Panpsychism, Religion, Spirituality}

Durham University philosopher Philip Goff, co-editor of Is Consciousness Everywhere? Essays on Panpsychism (November 1, 2022), has an interesting take on religion. While it’s common to assume that religious people are “believers,” he thinks that people can meaningfully be part of a religion without actually believing in it: But there is more to a religion than a cold set of doctrines. Religions involve spiritual practices, traditions that bind a community together across space and time, and rituals that mark the seasons and the big moments of life: birth, coming of age, marriage, death. This is not to deny that there are specific metaphysical views associated with each religion, nor that there is a place for assessing how plausible those views Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 28, 2022

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Philosophy, Religion

Tagged
Apophatic theology, Art (as religion substitute), Darwinism (and ethics), Dover Beach (poem), E. O. Wilson, Ed Simon, existentialism(as religion substitute), Friedrich Nietzsche (influence), God Beat (book), God Is Dead concept, God-is-dead theology, Matthew Arnold, Michael Egnor (on faith and reason), New Religion Journalism, Theodicy (Ed Simon's view), Thomas Henry Huxley}

Religion Journalism After God Is Declared Dead

_{Writer and editor Ed Simon examines and makes a case for the New Religion Journalism, offering us help with praying to a dead god} _{Denyse O'Leary

February 28, 2022

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Arts & Culture, Philosophy, Religion}

Ed Simon is one of the editors of a recent anthology, The God Beat: What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters (2021). According to the publisher, Broadleaf Books (an imprint of 1517 Media, formerly Augsburg Fortress), the book highlights “personal, subjective, voice-driven New Religion Journalism” by young writers “characterized by their brash, innovative, daring, and stylistically sophisticated writing and an unprecedented willingness to detail their own interaction with faith (or their lack thereof).” Simon offers his own thoughts on religion, sympathetic to that perspective, in a recent article at Aeon: He starts with reflections on the view that mid-nineteenth-century British poet Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) expressed in his poem “Dover Beach,” that religious faith was receding in his world: Read More ›