http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:36:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/karen-armstrong-the-oxford-literary-festival/#comment-995 A Free Spirit Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:36:26 +0000 http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-995 Really interesting! Armstrong’s particular theory comes through in her introduction to A Case for God. In my view, she comes very close to reducing religion to ethics, which is something liberal Protestantism has been criticized for doing. Take, for example, "God is love." I interpret this as teaching that love is the source or basis of existence. Even though our acts of love (and feelings!...which Armstrong also discounts relative to conduct) involve "God is love" being actualized, there is also the sense irrespective of one's conduct that existence itself is love. I take the transcendent wisdom of the latter to be just as important as conduct in religious terms. I’ve just posted a critique (http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/a-case-for-god/). Really interesting! Armstrong’s particular theory comes through in her introduction to A Case for God. In my view, she comes very close to reducing religion to ethics, which is something liberal Protestantism has been criticized for doing. Take, for example, “God is love.” I interpret this as teaching that love is the source or basis of existence. Even though our acts of love (and feelings!…which Armstrong also discounts relative to conduct) involve “God is love” being actualized, there is also the sense irrespective of one’s conduct that existence itself is love. I take the transcendent wisdom of the latter to be just as important as conduct in religious terms. I’ve just posted a critique (http://deligentia.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/a-case-for-god/).

]]> http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/reading-list/#comment-963 Emma Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:15:16 +0000 http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-963 ooops... ooops…

]]> http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/reading-list/#comment-962 Laura Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:43:48 +0000 http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-962 You haven't underlined any - does this mean you didn't love any of them? (Thinks: could you underline one you haven't yet read? That would be very Time Traveler's Wife...) You haven’t underlined any – does this mean you didn’t love any of them?
(Thinks: could you underline one you haven’t yet read? That would be very Time Traveler’s Wife…)

]]> http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/equal-opportunities/#comment-954 Laura Thu, 29 May 2008 08:53:21 +0000 http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/?p=114#comment-954 Beautifully timed to coincide with: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/ xx Beautifully timed to coincide with: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
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]]> http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/east-coast-road-trip/#comment-953 Tim Mon, 12 May 2008 20:33:04 +0000 http://uselessinfo.wordpress.com/?p=113#comment-953 Pay for postage on-line. National Postal Museum. There is an emerging fixation here. Stamp on it. Pay for postage on-line. National Postal Museum. There is an emerging fixation here. Stamp on it.

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