Tag: Theology

This is an insightful reframing — examining Jesus’s own words and orientation in contrast to orthodox Christian doctrine regarding his relative focus on uplifting women/the oppressed versus directing male disciples carrying religious legacy: Based on my interpretation, if focusing str...

This book was not my choice. It was the choice of a theology professor who put it in the syllabus for an anthropology seminar. Well, and to be fair, I made the choice to read it! It was additional reading and I am glad I opened the book. It immediately attracted my attention. It is no secret that I ...

Whitehead started off his academic life as a professor of mathematics. With Bertrand Russell, he wrote Principia Mathematica, perhaps the most dense book ever written. But like Ludwig Wittgenstein, Whitehead abandoned Russell’s analytical, reductionist view of the world and became a ...

In other words, there’s a 1 in 10⁴⁰⁰⁰⁰ probability that life could have arisen spontaneously on Planet Earth. This is a lower probability than winning Powerball for 52 consecutive weeks. Who could believe in anything that improbable? There are reasons why I would question that num...

Whilst it is easy to assume anthropology is merely descriptive and theology is normative, ‘Each discipline has both normative and descriptive impulses’. (p. 9) Theology seeks to imagine a new world and to call the world to move towards that direction (p. 10). Anthropology, however, is...