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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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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…
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ART and Christian Churches
Abstract This essay examines the causal link between the decline of Australian churches and the systematic adoption of the American Revivalist Tradition (ART), as forewarned by Dr. Neville Buch in his 1995 doctoral research. It argues that the transition from a British-oriented “clerical Enlightenment” to a mechanized American model of faith has induced a state…
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The Humanistic Ascent. Reclaiming Dignity in Australian Higher Education
25 February 2026 Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Scholar, Principal Researcher, Team Leader, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA cc. Drs. Michael Mackin and Neil Peach, Directors, Management Institute for Contributory Economy Dear “university friends”, I have a message that must…