September 29, 2018 by

Extract Pope Francis and Gustavo Guiterrez

Pope Frances actively sought Gustavo Gutierrez’s advice in writing his encyclical on the environment Laudato Si (2015). Contrast the words of…

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August 16, 2018 by

Extract 8 – Karl Barth’s Interpretation of the Ontological Argument

‘For I do not seek to understand that I may believe (intelligere ut credam) but I believe in order to understand…

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August 15, 2018 by

Extract – Bertrand Russell’s Criticism of the Forms

II. A Critique In Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy (New York: Simon Schuster, 1972), pp.126-130. (NB: The word “idea” can be…

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July 31, 2018 by

Suggested Reading – John McQuarrie and Panentheism

source Panentheism (Greek pan which means “all,” en which means “in,” and theos which means “God”) is the position that God is greater than the universe, that…

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July 31, 2018 by

Suggested Reading – Matthew 19:23-26

23 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of…

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July 31, 2018 by

Extract Julia Annas Theory of the Forms

source Chapter 9 The ‘Theory’ of Forms Knowledge, then, has Forms as objects, though nothing so far implies that knowledge is…

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July 31, 2018 by

Extract – Purpose of Plato’s Republic Julia Annas

source One very widespread way of interpreting the Republic is to see Plato as concerned mainly or exclusively with the task…

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July 29, 2018 by

Extract – Sermon on the Mount

5 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he…

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July 29, 2018 by

Extract – The Need for Reflection in Christian Ethics

source The naively mythical understanding of the place of God in ethical theory, which implies that the morally relevant function of…

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July 29, 2018 by

Extract – Catholic Catechism on Morality

Article 4 THE MORALITY OF HUMAN ACTS 1749 Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to…

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