Tag: reason
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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November 28, 2006 10:23 AM EST --
Pope Benedict XVI has relationship problems not just with Islam but also with his Church. The circular skirmishing of Vatican I polemicists scarcely obfuscates their real purpose. Case in point . . . more
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March 16, 2007 12:45 PM EDT --
“Absolute" truth is an understanding I would think people might apply, and properly so, to the sanctity of life and the obligation of everyone to be “pro-life”. Commonsense would . . . more
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December 27, 2006 03:29 PM EST --
To the article “AXIOMS OF EVOLUTION: Where Conscience comes from”, which I published at this site, December 16, 2006, Jerome K. writes: “Ah, but will it make ice-cream? Sorry, but it . . . more
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . . more
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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July 28, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
The joined offensive of dominion theology and imperial politics is lethal. Indeed, by culture and genetic hard-wiring, male domination continues to be a mortal threat to personal/social wellbeing. The . . . more
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December 09, 2006 11:33 AM EST --
QUESTION Based on universal understandings of cosmic origin and evolution, what faith convictions (certitude) and rational conclusions can all religions and civilizations accept and advance in . . . more
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December 16, 2006 07:05 AM EST --
At the beginning of the book RELIGION & CIVILITY (Sylvester L Steffen, 2004, third book of the Second Enlightenment Trilogy) is an Overview with 10 axioms (modified below), corollaries that derive . . . more
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January 31, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
Changing Worldview, Changing Dogma
Worldview is a personally and socially developed consciousness. Personal consciousness dictates personal dogmas, the package of beliefs that inform personal . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . . more
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March 24, 2007 05:32 AM EDT --
“All of us long for a Pentecostal church; a church in which the Spirit rules, and not the letter; a church in which understanding breaks down the fences we erect against each other. We are impatient . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . . more
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June 11, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
Earth is in crisis. Nation’s are in crisis. Churches are in crisis. Education is in crisis. Humankind is cornered now and forced to react to crises mostly of its own making in order to stem its own . . . more
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March 16, 2008 02:55 AM EDT --
As to the status of women in cultural history, there is indeed a long train of philosophical/ theological thinking back into the deep past of consciousness by which thought advances the ascendancy of . . . more
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April 09, 2007 03:26 PM EDT --
Answer: Because the Religious Right ignores and discredits the Catechism of Cosmic Religion.
What is the Catechism of Cosmic Religion? Nature is the universal, common, cosmic catechism. . . . more
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March 21, 2008 04:01 AM EDT --
Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council recognized that humankind suffers spiritually and culturally from profound depression and a destructive social disorder, what I call the RELIGIOUS PARALYSIS . . . more
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November 18, 2005 04:52 PM EST --
"Religion supposes Faith as Faith supposes Reason"
http://www.georgetown.edu/users/jlh3/Murray/1959a..htm
Organic complexity is a unitary spiritual/material dynamic within the evolving . . . more
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September 09, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
One thousand years ago, Imperial Roman Catholicism was in the beginning stages of its wars of Crusades against the Islamic Middle East. The wars of Crusades dragged on for hundreds of years, bankrupting . . . more
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March 10, 2007 06:30 AM EST --
IMPERIAL TRAPPINGS AND THE SUPPRESSION OF REASON ARE NOT WHAT RELIGION SHOULD BE ABOUT; NOR ARE THESE WHAT CULTURE AND POLITICS SHOULD BE ABOUT.
Faith, Reason and Apocalypse
APOCALYPSE and ENLIGHTENMENT . . . more
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January 24, 2007 03:59 AM EST --
NATURE as PRIMARY SCRIPTURE
GENDERING as Intelligent Design—DIVINE INSTANCE in Nature
“Ratio Mutans Fidem Mutandam” — Reason Changing Faith Needing Change
Open Letter to Pope . . . more
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