Archive for July, 2009
Religious discussions with/without reference to Axial period
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Prerequisites for religious discussion
Discussing the history of monotheism without reference to the Axial period is delusive!
Atheism in Axial period
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009History of atheism
Students of Axial Age forget that atheism and monotheism both appear in the Axial period.
Armstrong’s distortion of the eonic effect
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Karen Armstrong’s The Great Transformation is a disguised rip-off of World History And The Eonic Effect, transposed and reinterpreted to grease the wheeels. Note how Armstrong slips in the ‘great transformation of modernity’, but has changed the terms of discourse complexity.
In our current predicament, I believe that we can find inspiration in the period that [...]
Higher powers
Monday, July 13th, 2009HIgher powers
God idea stillborn in Axial religions?
Sunday, July 12th, 2009‘God’ idea stillborn in Axial religions