Posts Tagged ‘ theology ’

God Never Changes

See the thing about this idea is that it does get at some important things about reality, but if considered alone, gives us an incomplete picture. Whether you think God is unchanging depends on your perspective on what God actually is. If God is transcendent, outside us and outside of time, he is unchanging. For [ READ MORE ]

Response to some Theological Speculation

"The free will we are endowed by our Creator is the very thing that defines our existence– creation without free will is creation without love; ironically, it is love, and only love, that can create life, for all goodness rests in love. That which is not love is only for tearing down." -Amanda Your point [ READ MORE ]

Upanishads

Bolded are the lines I love the most.  So you know, Ajñāna means ignorance.  If the Hinduism terms bog you down, read only the bold: "I am without Māyā. I am without compare. I am solely the thing that is of the nature of wisdom. I am without Ahaṅkāra (I-am-ness). I am without the difference [ READ MORE ]

When a mystic talks theology…

When a mystic talks theology, it's poetic.   They feel their dogma and doctrine is perfectly true because they feel it with the whole of their being, and it's an expression of their heart, not a rule or a regulation.  But when the theologian gets a hold of it, it loses that intuitive truth and becomes [ READ MORE ]

Origin of Theology

Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion Alan W. Watts "Sometimes the mystic feels that this Spirit, this ultimate Reality, is inseparable from the immediate contents of daily experience, and on the basis of this intuition is often erected the theology of pantheism or immanentism. At other times he experiences Reality [ READ MORE ]

An Orchestra of Monkeys

Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion Alan W. Watts "In practising spiritual disciplines as well as in trying to acquire faith, most of us are like monkeys. We do not understand the saint's inner state, and we are trying to attain it by the mere mimicry of its outward signs. [ READ MORE ]

Musings on Hell

Stuff I posted on a message board I frequent.  None of it is certain, no matter how strongly I argued for it…I was just sort of letting my imagination go.  It was also a discussion that involved people from all different levels of Christian faith, so I sometimes used terms in order to relate better [ READ MORE ]

Holy the Firm

Wow.  I'm absolutely blown away.  Holy the Firm Annie Dillard What a perfect reminder of everything that I hold dear!  Reading this again, I'm realizing just how much of my world view was shaped by reading this short story.  It's about 20 pages long, but for me, it goes on forever.  Seriously, even more than [ READ MORE ]

Book/Movie Announcement: Dillard and Lynch

Here we go! First up, this month's movie is Mulholland Drive by David Lynch: Mulholland Drive From wikipedia: Mulholland Dr. is a 2001 Academy Award-nominated psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch. It stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux. The plot is structured around an aspiring actress named Betty Elms (Watts), who [ READ MORE ]

Gabriel Marcel

I read a bit of Marcel back in college (yeah all the way back in 2006, whew), and I really liked him.  So I looked up what I could find on him.  I found a great link from the Stanford Philosophy Encyclopedia, and I'm starting to read it. Here's the link for those interested. And [ READ MORE ]

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