http://viningsnaturalhealthcentre.co.uk/tag/emma-barrington/ I still find Sullivan good on most topics beside religion, but his defense of religion as transcending tenet is worth a look. It contains the nugget “fundamentalism is rationalism in religion.” Moralism and rationalism don’t wash too well with a God conceived of as a union of is and is not. The transcendent God tends […]
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On Adam and Eve.
15-Aug-11adjunctly Andrew Sullivan engages with the Adam and Eve question – whether they existed – after an NPR story on a few thoughtful evangelicals doing what thoughtful evangelicals in the end must do: repudiate Biblical literalism, and make a place in the pews for some simpler mind. All this is terribly obvious, and I was raised […]
Empiricism and Fundamentalism.
28-Apr-11A must-read piece from Andrew Sullivan on fundamentalism and reason in religion. He does things like re-translate the beginning of John’s Gospel – “In the beginning was reason. And reason was with God. And reason was God.” – which is a completely acceptable translation. The word usually translated “word”, logos, means much more than that and is […]