The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective

"The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love." --Simone Weil

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Vacationing

I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks--and although I'll have consistent computer access, if I do any blogging it will likely b...

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Keeping Oklahoma Safe from Islamic Law

For those of you who haven’t heard the news , legislators here in the great state of Oklahoma (apparently not wishing to be outdone by polit...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

What is Naturalism? Part V: Alternative Ontologies and Why We Should Care

So far, my primary aim in my series of posts on naturalism has been to offer an account of metaphysical naturalism—that is, naturalism const...

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

What is Naturalism, Part IV: Science as a Pathway to the Noumenal

For this post I want to focus on the idea, embraced by many (implicitly if not explicitly) that contrary to what Kant thought, the noumenal ...

Monday, June 21, 2010

Exclusive Interview with BP CEO Tony Hayward

Over the weekend, BP chief executive Tony Hayward took some well-deserved time off from watching oil pour into the Gulf of Mexico to enjoy a...

Saturday, June 19, 2010

What is Naturalism? Part III: The Quest for a Pathway to the Noumenal

In the last post, we looked at Kant’s distinction between phenomena (objects as they appear to us) and noumena (things as they are in themse...

Jesus Fibbers, Sophists, and Inner Peace

A friend of mine called my attention to this article from the Huffington Post, in which Karl Giberson confesses not so much to telling lies...

Thursday, June 17, 2010

What is Naturalism? Part II: Kant’s Phenomenal/Noumenal Distinction

In my previous post I started a series in which I hope to shed some light on the distinction between "metaphysical naturalism" and...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

What is Naturalism? Part I: An Overview

What is naturalism? Or more precisely, what is metaphysical naturalism—naturalism viewed as a theory about reality? This is the question I i...

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

God Expresses His Wrath in the Conventional Way--But Why?

On Monday night, a 62-foot-tall statue of Jesus, erected along Interstate 75 in Monroe, Ohio by the good people of Solid Rock Church, was st...

View web version

About Me

Eric Reitan: Eric, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His first book, IS GOD A DELUSION? A REPLY TO RELIGION'S CULTURED DESPISERS, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2009. His other books include GOD'S FINAL VICTORY (co-authored with John Kronen) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN LOVE ETHIC, the science fiction novel, SO EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, and, most recently,TROUBLED PARADISE: LIMITED SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HEAVENLY GRIEF.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.