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Religions, Cultures and Powers
As Jerry and I recover from our everything-that-could-go-wrong-did-go-wrong air travel experience, I’ve been taking this week to assimilate the intensely interesting experiences at the Theology Without Walls meetings in Denver. My reflections nestled around three questions: What did the TWW … Continue reading →
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Tagged AAR, American Academy of Religion, background assumptions, boundary encounters, challenges to cultures, confrontations testing cultures, cultural gestures, culture and truth, culture and ultimate belief, culture and ultimate reality, culture's internal contradictions, culture's permissions and prohibitions, divinity schools, evidence about God, globalized communication, God and anthropology, God and biology, God and history, God and neuroscience, God and physics, God and proofs, God in literature, God in memoir, God in the arts, Hegel's Philosophy of History, history's story, proofs of God, public universities, religion and culture, religion departments, religionists, religious competition, religious seeker, secular universities, The Absolute, the global adventure, Theology Without Walls, thought boundaries, TWW in Denver 2022, ultimacy, ultimate reality
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A Steeper Cliff
A Steeper Cliff The escarpment of Sunday loomed as one of life’s steeper cliffs. At 10:00 a.m. that morning, Jerry was scheduled to give a talk about his book, God: An Autobiography as told to a philosopher. By now he’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged afterlife compensations, afterlife of pets, agnostic, aliens, an inconvenient God, believer, Bible study, Bigfoot, book talks, courage, credulity, different worlds coming together, divine chariot wheels, doubting, encountering God, epistemolgy, escapism, ghosts, God and history, God is love, God's messenger, God's pilot project, God's self-revelation, God's voice, God's words, Hallmark Cards, hearing God's voice, intermarriage, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", Jewish covenant, Jewish education, Jewish experience with God, Jewish memory, Jewish survival, Jews in Bucks County, Jews in Manhattan, joining a temple, keeping friends apart, life challenge, literary devices, loss of identity, male agnostic, marital adventure, meaning of Jews, mission from God, moral imperative, New Age, New Age banalities, New Age reading, other-wordly tourism, past lives, preserving memory, problem-solving, prophet, Q & A with God, real world problems, Reform temple membership, rhetorical devices, skepticism, straight talk, Sunday, Temple Judea, the God experience, the metaphysical inventory, theory of knowledge, Torah Study, we are all one
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