Extract – Mary Daly and the Name of God
source From Stanford Encyclopedia, Feminist Philosophy of Religion, by Mary Frankelbury, Dartmouth College The early Daly carved out a philosophy of…
Read MoreExtract Ruether and the Prophetic Tradition
Here is the opening part of an article by Rosemary Ruether which illustrates quite well how she appeals to the prophetic/liberating…
Read MoreExtract- The Isaiah Vision
Isaiah presents a vision of people and a land redeemed from oppression and violence – a new age of well-being. Part…
Read MoreHandout: Feminism of Daly and Ruether
Gender and Theology Background Paradoxically, Christianity presents itself as a prophetic movement of liberation and belief in a new heaven and…
Read MoreArticle – The Secular Age Charles Taylor
source In the final chapters of the book, Taylor explores where he believes Christianity is heading by painting his broad impressions…
Read MoreArticle – The Death Drive in Freud
Source A century ago, Freud proposed the conception of mind structure models consisting of the following three components: the id (unconscious/instinctual…
Read MoreArticle – the Kantian Noumenal Realm
source Kant initiated his own “Copernican revolution” when he challenged philosophers with a new theory of knowledge. The human mind contains…
Read MoreExtract – Ego, Id and Superego
Conscience as Conflict 1. As the id is primitive (infantile), and in a sense compulsive part of the psyche, and driven…
Read MoreArticle Plato’s Charioteer and Human Nature
source What is a man? What sort of man should I be? What does it mean to live a good life?…
Read MoreArticle: A Critique of Hick
source A Critique of Hick by an evangelical pastor Hick shows some inconsistencies and ambiguities in his method. On the one…
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