Posted on November 3, 2018
THE ELEATICSBeing • Parmenides
Around 535 BC, a group of Greek settlers founded a colony on the west coast of Italy, just south of the modern city of Napoli (Naples). The settlement eventually became known as Elea. Read more
Posted on July 4, 2018
WHY IS THERE SOMETHING...Being • Culture • God • Parmenides • Time
In 2012, renowned physicist and cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss, published A Universe from Nothing. The purpose of the book was to debunk the idea that some sort of transcendent entity (e.g. Read more
Posted on October 31, 2016
“IS GOD DEAD?”Christ • God • Parmenides • Trinity • Whitehead
So read the cover of Time Magazine on April 8, 1966. Time was reporting on a handful of radical theologians who claimed to have invented “Death of God Theology” (aka Theothanatology). Read more
Posted on November 10, 2015
THEOLOGY 101Anaximander • Eschatology • Existentialism • Genesis • God • Parmenides • Time • Trinity • Whitehead
Theology 101 is comprehensive…but not complete. Questions remain to be answered, themes need to be further developed. Read more
Posted on March 12, 2014
CORINTHIANS written by David CowlesAnaximander • Christ • Eschatology • God • John & Paul • Parmenides • Politics • Whitehead
In the Bible’s New Testament, 14 letters (or epistles) have traditionally been attributed to Paul of Tarsus, St. Paul. Read more
Posted on November 10, 2013
APOCALYPSE NOW!Eschatology • Parmenides • Whitehead
No, not the movie…the Eucharist!
Much of Christian eschatology is organized around two concepts: Apocalypse and Parousia, ancient Greek words commonly translated as “revelation” and “coming... Read more
Posted on July 8, 2013
FRAGMENT 8Being • Eschatology • Parmenides • Whitehead
What is the most important single work in Western philosophical tradition? Is it Plato’s Timaeus? John’s Gospel? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason? Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations?
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Posted on May 20, 2013
TOPOLOGY OF THEOLOGYEschatology • God • Parmenides • Science • Trinity
At least since the Enlightenment, Westerners have been looking at the world in a very particular way. Read more
Posted on May 11, 2013
REVELATIONChrist • Eschatology • God • John & Paul • Parmenides • Whitehead
In its introduction to the Book of Revelation, the New American Bible (Revised Edition), currently the official translation of the Roman Catholic Church, states: “The Apocalypse, or Revelation to Jo... Read more
Posted on March 23, 2013
ESCHATON REVISTEDEschatology • Parmenides • Science
Eschatology is traditionally defined as the study of the four last things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Read more
Posted on April 9, 2012
THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF TIMEAnaximander • Genesis • Parmenides • Science • Time
In an earlier essay in this collection, The Perpendicular Present, we showed conclusively that the experiential Present has nothing whatsoever to do with the linear phenomenon we call “time”. Read more
Posted on June 27, 2011
KANDINSKY...AND THE OTHER WORLDCulture • Parmenides • Time
From the dawn of philosophy, thinkers have speculated that the world of space & time, matter & energy, objects & sense perceptions, the world in which we seem to live, may not be the only ... Read more