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I find it striking that so many different religious traditions work to expose this sense that “I am the center of the universe” as a dangerous illusion.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Peace, Walter Brueggemann
Lisa Sharon Harper • The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
A prevailing belief in the West, articulated by John Calvin, another seventeenth-century theologian, held that God chose certain people for salvation, and consigned the rest to eternal damnation. Free will? According to Calvinism and its doctrine of predestination, it didn’t exist.
Daniel H. Pink • Free Agent Nation
ever claim to have been divinely inspired.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
There is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. Nor…are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimize our behaviour.[250]
Warren Ward • Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought
Augustine is our contemporary. He has directly and indirectly shaped the way we understand our pursuits, the call to authenticity.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
In ‘He wills’, the ‘He’ signfies God, within whose will we instate our whole being.
Rudolf Steiner • Guidance in Esoteric Training
Theology
Carina Bonella Gawel • 9 cards