Religion and the Human Future An Essay on Theological Humanism

The Task of Theological Humanism 136 We now present an elementary model of a fundamental property of consciousness with all the ...

Masks of Mind 137 co-dependence. Each of Consciousness, we say, is necessarily embodied, but it is not reducible to the body. Hu ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 138 ciousness can assume various “masks,” as it were. One need not believe that hthat an inexpl ...

Masks of Mind 139 atom to molecules (such as the water molecule), and moving on through inorganic life forms to more complex sys ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 140 Art is one medium through which the deepest possibilities for self- understanding are trans ...

Masks of Mind 141 from a jug. This ordinary scene is infused with a sense of the extraordinary, partly because the woman is whol ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 142 vity, but also empower one to be something more. If, for example, I sense that the work of ...

Masks of Mind 143 not as “art” objects, but as media of the gods. Art was indistinguishable from religion, and even religion was ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 144 artist to express, in abstract forms of intense color and strong painterly gestures, the sp ...

Masks of Mind 145 What does theological humanism have to say about the condition of art as a reflective good? In today’s world, ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 146 marketingdecades, shrewd marketing experts have turned to art. Why not, if anything can be ...

Masks of Mind 147 has done a series of paintings called cover of this book.crete doorway, which hovers in the unbounded universe ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 148 dualists contend, we have sought to develop an account which is scientifi-cally plausible b ...

Religion and Spiritual Integrity^9 If one casts a glance on the global scene, it becomes obvious that religion is a force of goo ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 150 scientists, strident forms of religion thunder above the earthly landscape. Some people tak ...

Religion and Spiritual Integrity 151 While it was mentioned in chapter 1, we want to be clear about the meaning of “religion.” S ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 152 commend themselves for reflection.(Buddhism, Christianity, etc.) tend, first, to have found ...

Religion and Spiritual Integrity 153 One persistent response to religious pluralism in American history has been Christian exclu ...

The Task of Theological Humanism 154 self-defining structure. It is a growing presence and force in American reaching millions o ...

Religion and Spiritual Integrity 155 and missionizing. The promise of the rapture provides certainty of for the true believer, o ...