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

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Once More, With Logistics

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Since I am too busy right now with proof-reading and indexing work on the forthcoming book to produce another substantive post in my Kantian...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Top Ten Horrors of New Parenthood

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My wife's cousin and his wife are now the proud parents of a truly beautiful baby girl. Honestly, she really is lovely. I see pictures o...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

Huh?

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Not sure if this is a general phenomen for anyone accessing my blog or just a localized issue for my computer, but this evening when I went ...
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Roger Sullivan on the Place of Moral Sentiments in Kant

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My friend and co-author, John, just pointed me to some helpful passages from Roger Sullivan's  Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory . These ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Giving a Human Face to the Marriage Equality Issue

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In the video behow, my cousins (Phil is my first cousin) stand up for marriage equality and speak out against the proposed Minnesota State C...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

Kantian Ethics, Part 2: The First Formulation of the Categorical Imperative

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In my last post I started to consider Kant's moral philosophy, focusing on Kant's contention--in opposition to Hume--that reason can...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

Kantian Ethics, Part 1: Kant vs. Hume

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I've been thinking for awhile now that it would be helpful, for the sake of the discussions about ethics on this blog, to devote some ti...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Who's an Apologist?

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Am I one? My first book, Is God a Delusion? , was called a work of Christian apologetics often enough—but I think the assumption that it was...
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

When Life Hands You Lemons...Getting Serious

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So, my attempt at a light-hearted contest for while I was out of town pretty much fell flat. It generated but one response in the comments ...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

[ad hoc] Christianity Interview

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My interview with the guys at the [ad hoc] Christianity podcast is now available for your listening pleasure (or as a a basis for shouted i...
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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.
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