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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
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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Eating and the Perfection of Our Nature
Another old post. Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. – Epictetus (55AD-135AD) We are not infrequently reminded of the reality of our animal nature, of how much we share in common with the … Continue reading
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Forgetting What We Read
Although I had rather a long break from formal blogging, I wrote a lot in various other contexts during my absence, and thought that I might as well occasionally post something that I come across in some random and neglected … Continue reading
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Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 2
Other Posts in Series: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 Friedman advances the thesis that contemporary America has a climate of chronic anxiety, leading to ‘an emotional regression that is toxic to well-defined leadership’ (53). He points … Continue reading
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Why There Are No Theological Problems
Jacques Maritain somewhere makes a distinction that I find helpful between a ‘problem’ and a ‘mystery’. A problem admits of a solution – ‘can you prove Fermat’s last theorem?’ ‘is there intelligent life elsewhere in the universe?’ ‘does the Higgs … Continue reading
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Summary of Edwin Friedman’s ‘A Failure of Nerve’: Part 1
Other Posts in Series: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 I am presently reading Edwin H. Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix, a provocative, stimulating, and eminently quotable book which challenges … Continue reading
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Matt Colvin on Missionary Support
Matt Colvin blogs on the subject of missionary support: One of the goals of giving a handout to a bum is to avoid entering into any deeper relationship with the beggar: toss him some money and walk on. By contrast, … Continue reading
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Tebow’s Faith and Ours
A friend just alerted me to Daniel Foster’s thought-provoking article on Tim Tebow. I am sure that a number of you will have read it before, and will be familiar with (and perhaps exhausted by) the discussion surrounding Tebow’s faith … Continue reading
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