What I am reading now

[curmudgeon]

The book, more of a very slim paperback really is one that I purchased from
the Cokeberry people at the annual Rocky Mountain Conference of the United
Methodist Church, which was held in Denver, Colorado this past weekend.
It is called "Philosophy and Theology" and is written by John D.Caputo, it
is to me a very fascinating book.
Why should either Philosophy or Religion be considered geographically poles
apart?
Why not more along the lines of say husband and wife?



*curmudgeon*
"The best read illiterate in the country"

[d***@aol.com]

The book, more of a very slim paperback really is one that I purchased =

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the Cokeberry people at the annual Rocky Mountain Conference of the Unite=

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Methodist Church, which was held in Denver, Colorado this past weekend.
It is called "Philosophy and Theology" and is written by John D.Caputo, i=

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is to me a very fascinating book.
Why should either Philosophy or Religion be considered geographically pol=

es

apart?

Who claims they are? There are huge numbers of religious philosophers,
I would think religion to be a subtext of philosophy, metaphysics
spilling over into epistomology, ethics and aesthetics.




Daryl

[R.A. Nagy]

Post by d***@aol.com

The book, more of a very slim paperback really is one that I purchased =

=A0from

the Cokeberry people at the annual Rocky Mountain Conference of the Unite=

d

Methodist Church, which was held in Denver, Colorado this past weekend.
It is called "Philosophy and Theology" and is written by John D.Caputo, i=

t

is to me a very fascinating book.
Why should either Philosophy or Religion be considered geographically pol=

es

apart?

Who claims they are? There are huge numbers of religious philosophers,
I would think religion to be a subtext of philosophy, metaphysics
spilling over into epistomology, ethics and aesthetics.

Ye shall know them by their works -

Philosophers seldom lay claim to the charge of Jesus to be able to do the
"greater miracles"... Yet in both Rome and Salt Lake City alike, the
wrongfully dead ever remain as quite there, as do the hills or mountains
around each "leader" therein.

;-)

R.A. Nagy
http://SaintBook.org

[AJA]

Post by curmudgeon
Why should either Philosophy or Religion be considered geographically poles
apart?
Why not more along the lines of say husband and wife?

Of course they are not poles apart. I studied under David Elton Trueblood
in my undergrad years. He was self described as a Quaker philosopher. He
wrote a book called _Philosophy of Religion_ Harper & Row Puiblishers) which
remains to this day an important touchstone for me in my religious life. He
writes, "The purpose of this book is to develop and to expound the
essentials of a philsophy which enable men and women of this century to be
both intellectually honest and sincerely devout." No division there!
I believe that it one of the great shames of today that people
compartmentalize life- attempt to put areas of study into neat little boxes.
We will know little or nothing until we know who and what humankind is, and
religious practice is certainly part of who and what humankind is, D. Elton
Trueblood said. He said especially in these times we must be increasingly
adept at distinguishing between the profound and the superficial- strive at
at least an _approach_ agreement on a unity of reality.
Comparmentalization, Dr. Trueblood said, after Professor Whitehead's
_Science and the Modern World_, tis the great mistake is pitting differing
modes of thought in unnecessary antagonism. Philosophy is one very
necessary mode of thought.

Blessings,
Ann