Remember that sense you had as a child, of endless possibility and endless texture and depth to the reality of existence all around you? We commented on it in a post on Christmas, as being relevant to the attempt to pause and contemplate the astonishing fact of existence. As children we felt the significance of […]
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Christmas!
If you want to know whether it’s Christmas or not, go to www.isitchristmas.com. There you’ll find a one-word answer. For 364 days of each year, that answer is “NO.” On just one day, it’s “YES.” Try it. Small children are adorable partly because they are constantly experiencing new things, and their sense of wonder and […]
Read more...Review (Part Six): The Experience of God – Being Consciousness Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
Having explained how we approach the natural only over the interval of the supernatural, Hart turns to the incoherency of materialism. Absolute truth The human longing for truth involves a loyalty to an ultimate ideal, and that ultimate ideal beckons to us from beyond the totality of beings. We would not care at all about […]
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