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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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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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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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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 3: Subjects and Mediation
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:I, Chapter 2:II, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 Reality always comes to us in a mediated form, being constructed by the symbolic order. This symbolic order designates the system of connections between the different elements … Continue reading
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Terry Eagleton’s Vision of Christianity
Over on Curlew River, John H writes on Terry Eagleton’s vision of Christianity: Prof Eagleton is not a Christian, but he is (a) highly sympathetic towards the account of Christian faith he first encountered as a student “with the aid … Continue reading
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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 2:II: Theology After Heidegger
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:I, Chapter 3, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 In the previous post in this series, I sketched Chauvet’s summary of Heidegger’s challenge to traditional metaphysical thinking. At this point, Chauvet turns from summarizing Heidegger … Continue reading
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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 2:I: Heidegger and the Overcoming of Metaphysics
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2:II, Chapter 3, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 [I have split this chapter into two parts, as it is rather dense and philosophical, but worth spending time over.] Having highlighted the problematic … Continue reading
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‘Symbol and Sacrament’ Chapter 1: Onto-Theology in Classical Sacramental Theology
Symbol and Sacrament Posts: Introduction, Chapter 2:I, Chapter 2:II, Chapter 3, Chapter 4:I, Chapter 4:II, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 Chauvet’s Symbol and Sacrament begins with the question of the reason why the Scholastics privileged the category of ‘cause’ when thinking … Continue reading
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The Glory of Kings
I read The Glory of Kings a couple of weeks ago, and just wrote the following review, which I thought that I would also post here. Having been an appreciative reader of James Jordan for over a decade, the prospect … Continue reading
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