Taking Exception to Shadi Hamid’s Islamic Exceptionalism
Published at MENA etc. on 09/12/2016. It takes a brave person to comment on the Middle East, one never knows when a …
Category Archives: Theology
Anthony Kenny on Darwinian Arguments: Evolution, Creation, and Special Creation
Creation and Evolution By the time Mill’s Essays were published in 1887, religious believers felt under threat more from evolutionary …
Wilfred Cantwell Smith on the ideal of Faith
‘Yet I have insisted that an analysis is lopsided and faulty it if serves only the observer, not the participant. …
William Cavanaugh on Rational and Irrational Violence
‘In foreign policy, the myth of religious violence serves to cast nonsecular social orders, especially Muslim societies, in the role …
Nietzsche on the Death of God
Para. 125; The Gay Science (1882, 1887), Friedrich Nietzsche, [Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
Anselm on Belief
For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I …
On the Priority of Faith
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, p. 36, 1993.
Talal Asad on ‘Defining the Essence of Religion’
‘According to this view, Medieval religion, pervading or encompassing other categories, is nevertheless analytically identifiable. It is this face that …
Pascal on the Nobility of Man
Pascal – Pensees, 231
On Disagreeing about Everything
From their standpoint a theist is someone who believes in just one more being than they do and who therefore …
