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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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Compression and Application for Local Philosophy
Abstract This essay explores the interplay between the philosophical concept of compression and its application within the realm of local socio-intellectual history, specifically focusing on the Queensland context as documented by Dr. Neville Buch. Drawing on the media theory of Jonathan Sterne and the “Technics and Time” framework of Bernard Stiegler, the analysis distinguishes between “abstract…
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Is this what you think in your silence? Bizarre Reactions. The Rhetoric of Dismissal – Defending the Scholarship of Neville Buch
20 April 2026 Dear Friends, Abstract This essay provides a critical evaluation of Sophia Corwin’s 2026 article, “The Epistemic Poverty of Suburban Quixotism,” arguing that Corwin’s response to Dr. Neville Buch constitutes a “bizarre” rhetorical performance that substitutes personal mockery for scholarly engagement. While Corwin attempts to “eviscerate” Buch’s work as “AI-slop” and “academic vacuity,”…
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Private, Public, and What you are Missing by “No” Reading Dr Buch’s Work?
19 April 2026 Dear friends, First, congratulations to Dr Ray Kerkhove for his recent article. This research is very welcome. It also supports my ‘Queensland myth’ historiography, which too many people want to put in the ‘historical forgetfulness’ stage of cognition. I have attached Ray’s article. Kerkhove, Ray (2026). Frontier Wars Queensland…
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What is this Protestant-Catholic Thing. The Queensland Case
What is this Protestant-Catholic Thing. The Queensland Case Dr Neville Buch Abstract The social and political landscape of Queensland has long been defined by the “Catholic-Protestant thing,” a shorthand for deep-seated sectarian divisions that influenced education, governance, and the state’s cultural identity. Dr. Neville Buch’s scholarship frames this dynamic as a transition from a…
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Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The literary and ideological clash between C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman serves as a primary site for Dr. Neville Buch’s application of Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). While Pullman characterizes the Chronicles of Narnia as “poisonous” religious propaganda, Dr. Buch provides a synoptic evaluation that moves…
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Hedging on Christian Nationalism: A Critique of Noetic Regression
Dr Neville Buch Abstract Nick Spencer’s article, “Christian Nationalism,” provides a valuable taxonomy of a burgeoning global phenomenon, yet from the perspective of Dr. Neville Buch’s Matrix of Sociology and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC), it ultimately “hedges” by failing to diagnose the movement as a profound state of denoetization and Passive Nihilism. While…
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Comprehension: do you get it?
[Verse 1] I pictured a rainbow You held it in your hands I had flashes But you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years While you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon The whole of the moon [Chorus] You…
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How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today
https://www.academia.edu/165296563/How_Antigone_Complex_Changes_Everything_for_Higher_Education_Today PDF File: How Antigone Complex Changes Everything for Higher Education Today Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The current global revolution in thought is defined by a transition from the “Digital Revolution” of modernity to a “post-post-postmodern” era characterized by “symbolic misery” and “denoetization”—the mechanical liquidation of…
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Reforming 21st-century Theology and Sociology
Dr Neville Buch The Basic Propositions of 21st Century Theology-Religion-Sociology Abstract This essay explores the revolutionary reform currently reshaping 21st-century Theology, Religion, and Sociology, moving these disciplines away from the “mechanical liquidation of discernment” and the “immense regression” of the human spirit. Drawing on the interdisciplinary synthesis of Dr. Neville Buch, Jürgen Habermas, and…
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Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678)
https://www.academia.edu/165049393/Ralph_Cudworth_The_True_Intellectual_System_of_the_Universe_1678_ Attached: Ralph Cudworth. The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642 Abstract: The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) represents the definitive seventeenth-century defence of a self-conscious, universal Mind against the rising tide of mechanical and hylozoic atheism. By investigating the foundational…