Reflections on Hobbes’ “Village Idiot”.
Going from “one one one” to “three”.
Continue August 31, 2007
Archives – August, 2007
Kantian and Paulian Christians
The four Christian congregations compared; especially the Kantian and the Paulian congregations with respect to the utility of sacred history and creed.
Continue August 20, 2007
Patience in Making Judgments of God
A Christian variation on the Muslim theme of patience. While making and heeding moral judgment, nevertheless the Christian is willing to wait for all information before making judgments concerning the ultimate effect of all acts and even of all events.
Continue August 18, 2007
Christian Communism
Toying with an order where the government and the church were one and where the church taught communism as an expression of Christian love, and where membership in the church/commune was entirely voluntary, and where every Christian were a Communist and every Communist a Christian.
Continue August 17, 2007
Kant at the Church Luncheon
Inspired by the lunch table at Atlanta’s First United Methodist Church, where I imagine that Immanuel Kant drops in and joins us and gabs with us at the table. It presents, I think, a good description of his thinking about churches, and the Christian church in particular. Here I try to speak in accordance with my present understanding of Kant.
Continue August 17, 2007
Ruminations on Kant’s “Conscienceâ€
Musing and some clarity on Kant’s use of “conscience” in his work on rational religion. It is a consciousness which, oddly enough, happens also to be a rational duty.
Continue August 11, 2007
Authority of Christian in Scriptural Interpretation
Musing on the authority of Christian interpretion of scripture, and then musing about Jesus as the “revolutionary” and his contrast of the Kingdoms of Light and Dark. Very preliminary.
Continue August 10, 2007
Sunshine and Fair Play
A draft letter calling on bible believers to start with Jesus and John 5 before heeding any interpretations calling for what would otherwise be commonly seen as unfair conduct. Some personal stuff also.
Continue August 3, 2007
Kant and the Guidance of the Conscience
Kant and the Inquisitor. And what it means to act according to conscience.
Continue August 2, 2007