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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Edwin Friedman’s, ‘A Failure of Nerve’
Part 1: How Societies Become Imaginatively Gridlocked and How This Can Be Overcome Part 2: Understanding the Chronically Anxious Society Part 3: The Data Addiction and How to Kick the Habit Part 4: Why Empathy Doesn’t Work Part 5: The … Continue reading
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Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 6
Other Posts in Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Emotional Triangles An ‘emotional triangle’ refers to ‘the manner in which the relationship between any two people, or a given individual and his or her symptoms, can be a function … Continue reading
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Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 5
Other Posts in Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 6 The Importance of Self There is a constant struggle in life between the forces that seek to play it safe and merely reproduce the status quo, and the forces … Continue reading
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Writing and the Lives of Theologians
…to be a Christian is not something you do alone. Our lives are possible only because of what others make of them. As theologians, we must say more than we can be in the hope that others will make us … Continue reading
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Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 4
Other Posts in Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, Part 6 The Fallacy of Empathy Friedman now proceeds to take aim at the ‘fallacy of empathy’. He observes the way in which the political rhetoric of sensitivity can hijack … Continue reading
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Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 3
Other Posts in Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 The Addiction to Data For Friedman, one of the greatest problems with modern leadership is to be found in its over-reliance upon data. Leaders who rely too heavily … Continue reading
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Peter Leithart on the Song
Even as an erotic poem, the Song has much to teach. Robert Alter observes that in much of the world’s erotic literature, “the body in the act of love often seems to displace the rest of the world.” By contrast … Continue reading
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Žižek on the Meta-Choice of Western Multiculturalism
In the course of commenting on Archbishop Rowan Williams’ position on sharia law in the UK in his latest book, Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek remarks: [T]he moment a woman wears a veil as the result of her … Continue reading
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Jeremy Begbie on Theology Through the Arts
Via Daniel Stoddart. Well worth watching. I have long been a fan of Jeremy Begbie. During my time in St Andrews he delivered one of the best sermons I have ever heard at St Salvator’s Chapel. I highly commend his … Continue reading
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The Importance of Forgetting
I posted last night on the subject of forgetting what we read. Having promised a friend that I would post a follow-up quotation on the subject of forgetting, here goes. Somewhat ironically, it took me a while to find this … Continue reading
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