A Humble Courage
In a very recessed and implicit fashion, Karl Barth's theology, as explicated in works like "Church Dogmatics", follows Soren Kierkegaard's "Stages on Life's Way". Free PDF ebook.
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Resident Skeptic -- POSTMODERNISM BORN OUT OF DUE SEASON
The Protestant Reformation was actually postmodernism born out of due season. The Reformers who were the contemporaries and heirs of Luther, Calvin, & Co. were actually the first postmodernists.
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Resident Skeptic -- POSTCARDS FROM THE BIG EMPTY
As a child I would sit for hours gazing through my telescope at the moon, the rings of Saturn, the Galilean moons of Jupiter - or just naked-eye observing the majestic arch of the Milky Way.
Resident Skeptic -- SCIENCE
The mysteries of the universe are hidden in plain sight. J. B. S. Haldane was right: The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we CAN imagine.
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Resident Skeptic -- RELIGION
Is there a God? What happens to human beings after death? What principle should we follow for ethical guidance in the decisions we make? and Does human life have an ultimate Meaning?
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Resident Skeptic -- POLITICS
The American Founders, being astute scholars of politics, history, and religion, would encode the principle of tolerance into the Documents of the Founding of the American Republic.
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Resident Skeptic -- HUMOR
During the Trump years, it was surprisingly difficult to write satire because Trump, Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Stephen Miller, did such wickedly acerbic jobs of satirizing themselves!
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Resident Skeptic -- ETHICS
Many of the columns I wrote over the years pertained to the principles and inferences involved in ethical discourse. In particular, the relationship between the practice of ethics and theodicy ...
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