Sublime

What opened the new heaven was Moore’s quiet but apocalyptic proclamation in 1903 that after many centuries he had at last solved the problems of ethics by being the first philosopher to attend with sufficient care to the precise nature of the questions which it is the task of ethics to answer. What Moore believed that he had discovered by

the place of the passions and desires in human life is his initial assumption that either morality is the work of reason or it is the work of the passions and his own apparently conclusive arguments that it cannot be the work of reason.

But as to what the human being is, it is simply a whole of a certain kind, consisting of parts with properties and functions that give rise to the properties and functions of whole persons. These, in turn, make possible the relationships persons have to the natural and social worlds and?beyond all these, if they are fully alive as spiritual

For over seven hundred years, it would seem, theology and “spirituality” have been going their separate ways, with academic theologians paying scant attention to the life of the soul, and those concerned with the life of the soul and personal devotion finding little sustenance from academic theology. This present essay is a modest attempt to bring

I wrestle with and write about theology because I care about it to the depths of my being, because questions about who and what God is, and about what it means to be a Jew and a human being in the twenty-first century matter to me like almost nothing else does.

John was saying, “We agree that there is an ordering structure behind the universe, and that the meaning of life is to be found in aligning oneself with it.” But John was also saying that the Logos behind the universe was not an abstract, rational principle that could be known only through high contemplation by the educated elite. Rather, the Logos

The defender of the argument tries to establish one horn of each dilemma and, thus, to argue for these three premises: 1. The universe had a beginning. 2. The beginning of the universe was caused. 3. The cause of the beginning of the universe was personal.