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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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Andrew James Brown: Open Education and Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”.
Andrew James Brown provides Open Education and an introduction to Imoaka Shin’ichirō’s essay, “The Position of a Free-Religious Person [1951]”. I recommend listen to the YouTube video. Or read the transcription of Selected Essays by Imaoka Shin’ichiro [今岡信一良] (1881-1988). School Education and Religion (2) [1956] Shōwa 31 [1956] in…
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An Invitation for Open Thinking
Neville Buch’s discussion with Dave Benson, an Australian theologian working in the United Kingdom. The discussion centres on the Bible Society’s recent report: BS-The Quiet Revival-Final-Digital-EG The Quiet Revival The following is what I communicated after considering the report and reading the comments by Steve Hollinghurst, and the comments of the…
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2025 SOFiA Notice
Sea of Faith in Australia 2025 Annual General Meeting June 14, 2025, noon (12.00 p.m.) Off-Screen Location: Home of Helen Mason, 53 Lucinda Street Taringa, Brisbane, Queensland. On-Screen Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84314961783?pwd=ABAc6WJJQrKKQ9W7fbNH7rE1pAUdfC.1 Meeting ID: 843 1496 1783 Paul Tonson will speak on “Reading the bible agnostically”, that is as if we know nothing…
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Neil Van Leeuwen on Belief and Evidence
I have Neil Van Leeuwen’s permission to reproduce his paper, “Do religious ‘beliefs’ respond to evidence?”, published in Philosophical Explorations, 2017, Vol. 20, No. S1, S52–S72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2017.1287294 . At the end of the reproduced paper I come to several diagrammatic, sociological, conclusions of my own. DO RELIGIOUS “BELIEFS” RESPOND TO EVIDENCE? Neil Van…
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Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying.
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA 28 April 2025 Dear friends, Why the Misunderstanding? Please Learn from what I am saying. John Miller is the editor of UUnderworld, a freethinker magazine, for those freethinkers unconstrained by the…
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The “Fundamental” Characteristic in the American-Australian Connection of Trumpism
Dear folks Here is an example Quora Answer. My point in sharing it is not the language or the argument itself, but a warning in the scholarship of the American-Australian relational histories and sociology, for those scholars who think that the current historiography and sociology is ‘business as usual’: What…
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Own old problems with old solutions in ‘new wineskins’
Dr Neville Buch (ABN 86703686642) MICE Philosopher Business Office 18 Callendar Street, Sunnybank Hills 4109 AUSTRALIA Dr Neil Peach MICE Philosopher Management Institute for Contributory Economy PO Box 3898 South Brisbane, Q 4101 QLD 4101 AUSTRALIA 17 April 2025 Dear Neil, Following our…
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The History of Learning Humanism: What Most Humanists Miss in Cognition.
This essay has taken four books (in this order): Bakewell, Sarah (2023). Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Thinking, Enquiry and Hope, London: Chatto & Windus. Hayot, Eric (2021). Humanist Reason: A History, An Argument, A Plan, Columbia University Press. Radhakrishnan, R. (2008). History, the Human, and the World Between, Duke University…
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Reclaiming Nothing without the deep historical analysis: ART and congregational memetic Christianity
“Intellectually-speaking, memetic Christianity, with a dose of well-managed, private Nietzschean hedonism might well be the most sensible philosophical framework on which to build a lasting society, to preserve the dignity of the human person, and provide sufficient psychological solace for people’s ‘God-shaped hole.’” My colleague Dave Benson, of The London Institute for…
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Obituary. Don Cupitt 1934-2025, from the President of the Sea of Faith in Australia Inc.
Obituary. Don Cupitt 1934-2025, from the President of the Sea of Faith in Australia Inc. Dr Neville Buch Australians thinkers are both sadden and joyful at the passing of Don Cupitt (1934-2025). Sadden as it is a reminder of our own losses in death. Joyful as Cupitt’s contribution to the philosophy of religion…