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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (1923): One Hundred Years On, Questioning Social Philosophy and Policy for Today
THREE ESSAYS (REVIEW COMMENTS) IN ONE ESSAY An examination of D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (The Cambridge Edition) in social philosophy, and demonstrating a fundamental policy problem in Australian political history. Image: Sydney Region and Central-South Coast Staging of Kangaroo (1923). ***** List of Site Markers. Order from north to south Narrabeen New South Wales 2101…
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The Ontological Compass
The Ontological Compass assists in mapping out our understanding of too many philosophical arguments which get conflated, and interpretations which overlap without clarity. It works on measuring out usual binaries in discussions, and provides the relational sense to these matters, avoiding meaningless cognitive relativism as well as out-dated absolutism. If there are any absolutism,…
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Discussion: Religion, Culture, and Political Parties: The Silent Response to Zachary Gorman ‘s One Direction and Mike Seccombe’s Part 1 & 2: Collapse of the modern Liberal
Dr Neville Buch challenges a discussion with the views of Mike Seccombe, Zachary Gorman, John Warhurst, and Nick Cater. “I never got from Menzies what I feel about listening to modern Liberals, which is a contempt for the other. It’s a really, really harsh, harsh attitude – that your political opponents are the enemy. It’s…
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Exceptionalism and Conceit
You have to ask American Senator Ted Cruz, who’s propaganda is he and the gun lobby defending? Do we ennoble savagery, and do we falsify civility? These are the questions for the times, and it goes to exceptionalism for personal and national conceit. Exceptionalism is the condition of being different from the norm. For nations,…
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I forewarned the Direction of the Megachurch 25 years ago…in Queensland
It seems that the Southern Baptist Convention is in the news again, and news in the scandal within Hillsong Church, and the fall of Australia’s first and (I cautiously predict) only Pentecostal Prime Minister. ‘Megachurch and Politics’ is a disaster for faith and reason. I could see it 25 years ago, as well as most…
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Sartre on Humanism – Annotated. CRT No. 2
The task on hand is to overcome misunderstandings of humanism, in the same way that Jean-Paul Sartre attempted to overcome misunderstandings of existentialism; explained in his ‘Existentialism Is a Humanism.’ It is beneficial to examine Jean-Paul Sartre’s statements on humanism, and to rethink on what is meant by humanism. Sartre provided one version, but it…
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The Framing of Signs and Wonders. Series CRT No. 1
This short post is the first in the blog series, Concepts in Religious Thought. ***** One of the advantage for old age, as a scholar, is that you frequently have the ‘eureka’ moment. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh:…