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The Blessing
We’ve just returned from the Denver meetings of the American Academy of Religion – more specifically the subfield that Jerry founded: Theology Without Walls. It was founded in recognition of the current, unprecedented openness of communication in our world. It … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham Isaac and Jacob, Advaita Vedanta, American Academy of Religion, Atheism, Biblical accuracy, biblical history, biblical Israel, Biblical people in real life settings, Biblical test cases, choices of evils, Christian missionaries, Christian persecution of the Jews, Christian Supersessionism, Christians Jews and sibling rivalry, covenant in history, cultural absolutes, deceptions and the Biblical Jacob, disinheriting an ancestor, global communication, global influence, gnostic, God beyond religion, God's pilot project, guru, guru follower, historical problem of sibling rivalry, Immanuel Kant, indigenous spirituality, instructive Biblical record, interreligious dialogue, interreligious influences, Isaac's blessing, Israel and the Promised Land, Jacob and Esau, Jerry L. Martin, Jewish identity, Jewish survival, Kant and Reform Judaism, Kant's moral philosophy, Karmic payback, local cultures, local religions, Marxists, modern Israel, monotheism, Mother Ganga, non-Western spirituality, origin stories, pacifism, Pentateuch, preserving the Biblical record, preserving the God story, Promised Sands, recording the Biblical story, Reform Judaism, religious homecoming, Replacement Theology, Replacement Theology and the Holocaust, Return to Israel, sibling rivalry, sibling rivalry in history, spiritual but not religious, spiritual exploration, stealing the blessing, struggling with an ancestor, Supersessionism and Israel, The Book of Genesis, The Covenant, the human story, The River Ganges, theologians, theologically unsolved, theology and sibling rivalry, Theology Without Walls, three patriarchs, Torah, Torah Study, Universal Creator, Universal God in the Bible, universal moral law, weekly parashah
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Disaggregation
Disaggregation Disaggregation! What a title! Masses of people will be pushing in to hear what I have to say about that one! It’s the polysyllabic term for what I need to do: separate out and deal with the present pileup … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Confessions of a Young Philosopher", answering questions, author interviews, avoiding platitudes, baring one's soul, being overwhelmed, Biblical covenant, chronological order, Confessions of a Young Philosopher, counting on friends, crowd-pleasing, cultural way stations, disaggregation, essentially Jewish, existentialist, fashions in self-knowledge, first discovered last explained, first things first, forthcoming book, Freudian, friend as fellow trapeze artist, friend of my time, friend of this place, frontier of life, genre of confession, gnostic, God and Israel, having a lot to say, helping women today, hour of retreat, I can't do this, intellectual fashions, knowing what you're talking about, landing safely, large canvas, life challenges, life crises, losing privacy, Marxist, memory pathway, nihilist, no rest for the weary, normal life, philosophic rationalism, physicalist-reductionist, polysyllabic words, proofreading, saying something new, sharing life's perils, sheltered thought, spiritual pilgrimage, truthful atmosphere, woman as pilgrim, woman interviewer
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“Conversions”
“Conversions” What we believe influences our taste, our most consequential choices, our self-esteem and sense of our own weight in the world. When we are viewed from outside and classified, what’s typically picked out are the inherited features (“nature”) and … Continue reading →
Posted in art, culture, faith, feminism, history of ideas, memoir, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, social conventions, spirituality, the examined life, the problematic of woman
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Tagged Ariadne's Thread, Aristotle, atheist, behavior therapy, belief, believer in free will, brainwashing, Caravaggio, coercion, confessions, conservative, conversion, determinist, duress, feminist, Fidelista, friendship, gnostic, Hank Williams, I Saw the Light, Jew, labyrinth, nature and nurture, paradigm change, personal identity, self-concept, sincerity, stimulus response conditioning, The Road to Damascus, theist, traditional woman, transformation, truth
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