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Darwinism’s failure to explain religion

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Darwinism’s failure to explain religion

Armstrong on Darwinism and Axial Age: mars her book on ‘god’

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Armstrong and Darwin dogma
Armstrong’s Darwinism next to here confusion over the Axial Age is unfortunate for her theological discussion in her new book.

An Axial Age Of Liberalism

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

An Axial Age Of Liberalism

The great freedom sutra

Monday, August 24th, 2009

The issue of Buddhism is a confusing one. But one thing to consider is that it came into existence in the wake of the Axial Age, and then straddled an entire age until the modern, at which point its impetus began to fail. We see the desperation in the attempts to cast its ’seeds’ in [...]

Wikipedia on ‘axial age’

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Wikipedia on Axial Age
The misperception of the Axial Age on Wikipedia is indicative of the inability to see the phenomenon: it is something far larger than the sages and prophets it appears to exhibit.

Religious discussions with/without reference to Axial period

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Prerequisites for religious discussion
Discussing the history of monotheism without reference to the Axial period is delusive!

Atheism in Axial period

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

History of atheism
Students of Axial Age forget that atheism and monotheism both appear in the Axial period.

Higher powers

Monday, July 13th, 2009

HIgher powers

God idea stillborn in Axial religions?

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

‘God’ idea stillborn in Axial religions

The greeks and the irrational

Friday, May 29th, 2009

E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational’, and the relationship of the Greek Enlightenment to the Axial Age.

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