There is an argument against determinism that is as old as time. You can find many different statements of it. Here is one by the old Welsh theologian H. P. Owen: Determinism is self-stultifying. If my mental processes are totally determined, I am totally determined either to accept or to
In his magisterial two volume work, The Matter with Things, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Oxford literary critic Iain McGilchrist draws on his expertise in brain science to explore the relationship between reason and emotion. These two cognitive faculties are often seen as strongly opposed to one another. McGilchrist, however, questions this.
What can we learn by comparing Greek and Hebrew?
Or should we say, Reading Paul Selectively
Hello dear readers! I hope that you still read these newsletters in any case. I was just mentioning the other day that between welcoming another baby into the world and sitting through Hebrew exams, it has been far too long since I have written anything. Behind the scenes, I migrated
A major idea from a major figure in the West.
How can the Trinity be one God?
Where did evil come from?
What is hell, and do some people stay there forever?
A meditation on the Incarnation.
