The "binding of Isaac" story continues to fascinate me, especially given the role it played in the sharp divide between Kantian and Kierkegaardian readings of Christianity and its hand-me-down God. = (99+) Three Perspectives on Abraham’s Defense Against Kant’s Charge of Immoral Conduct | Stephen R Palmquist and Philip M Rudisill - Academia.edu
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I'm not sure whether the theological/Christological views of John D. Caputo count as fideism in the sense in which that term attaches to, say, Tertullian, Pascal, Kierkegaard, or Karl Barth. Whether he joins that august company or not, as the significance of his works comes to be sorted by time, I'm glad he recently came within my ken. Caputo's works include: AGAINST ETHICS (1993) THE WEAKNESS OF GOD (2003) And at essay length, "Temporal Transcendence," in TRANSCENDENCE AND BEYOND (2007). The title of the anthology to which I've just referred reminds me a bit of Buzz Lightyear's expression, "To Infinity and Beyond." But that is probably unfair to them both. One quote. Caputo is often quoted saying this, though I don't know the sourcing specifics for it. "I am seeking to know what religion would look like, what form it would take, if it were wrested free from people who consider themselves authorities in matters in whic...
I began my blog entry here for July 26 by reflecting on President Obama's statement to entrepreneurs, "You didn't build that." This led me in time, through an associative train the station stops of which I won't here reproduce, to the words of William James on the moral philosopher and the moral life. On the final station of that roadway, I quoted James thus: "See everywhere the struggle and the squeeze; and ever-lastingly the problem of how to make them less. The anarchists, nihilists and free-lovers; the free-silverites, socialists, and single-tax men; the free-traders and civil-service reformers; the prohibitionists and anti-vivisectionists; the radical darwinians with their idea of the suppression of the weak, -- these and all the conservative sentiments of society arrayed against them are simply deciding through actual experiment by what sort of conduct the maximum amount of good can be gained and kept in this world." In reflection...