Okay, so I watched Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding (not so much intentionally as to enjoy the loving company of my co-habitants) and was impressed by the tension between Bishop Michael Curry’s sermonizing on love and the dour and perplexed faces of many of the royal-loving Brits in the audience. Diana Evans’ Guardian piece gets […]
Posts Tagged ‘theology’
Pointing to Omega?
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged anti-racism, Christianity, cosmology, Eucocentrism, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary theory, Peirce, racism, spiritual evolution, Teilhard de Chardin, theology, Thomas Berry, Whitehead on May 22, 2018 | 3 Comments »
“Only a god can save us…”
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged art, daimon, Heidegger, ontotheology, paganism, polytheism, theology on March 16, 2012 | 9 Comments »
In a comment to my last post on triads and divinities, my frequent commenter/interlocutor “dmf” points out a nice essay by Robert Gall called “From Daimonion to the ‘Last’ God: Socrates, Heidegger, and the God of the Thinker,” which Mark Fullmer has made available beyond the restricted-access community. Gall distinguishes between the god of […]
Buddhist objects & processes
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Bryant, Buddhism, Hartshorne, object-oriented philosophy, process philosophy, theology, Whitehead on September 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Does object-oriented ontology = Buddhism? Tim Morton has been making intriguing sounds to that effect, and Levi Bryant has begun to ask him the hard questions about how and whether that might be possible — of how to “square the circle” of independent substances (OOO) with Buddhism’s conditioned genesis (a.k.a. dependent arising, codependent origination). Tim’s […]
weird life, shadow biospheres, dark signs… & quakes
Posted in Media ecology, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged cosmos, nature, Peirce, semiosis, theology on February 27, 2010 | 23 Comments »
The Biology Blog’s post on shadow biospheres intrigued me in part because I’ve been reading Charles Sanders Peirce, for whom semiosis is writ large (and small) throughout all things. Musing philosophically about the search for life on other planets, the author, cyoungbull, writes, “Unless we know how to interpret the signs of such life, we […]