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Response to Jack Miles’ God: A Biography
To summarize Jack Miles’ God: A Biography in a few paragraphs is to do disservice to a richly nuanced argument. Miles’ thesis—that God’s sense of self, previously unknown even to him, develops through the events of the Tanakh[1]—is developed through … Continue reading
Response to Bennett Ramsey’s, Submitting to Freedom
Hello Ben, First, your book broadened considerably my understanding of James’ thought, and more specifically, the context in which he wrote. Like many, my appreciation of James has been limited to a few, selective quotes which have appeared in the … Continue reading
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Buddhist thoughts on the self
Blockbuster movies tend to reveal what’s going on in the zeitgeist. The fact, then, that we’ve seen a lot of Buddhism creeping into Hollywood films in past years no doubt says something about the times in which we live. Buddhism … Continue reading
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Where angels fear to tread
I’ve been exploring some ideas from Angels Fear, co-authored by Gregory Bateson and his daughter, Catherine Bateson (also the daughter of Margaret Mead). Catherine Bateson published this book a number of years after her father’s death, collating it from unfinished … Continue reading
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