The story of one of Wikipedia's founders becoming a Christian (https://larrysanger.org/2025/02/how-a-skeptical-philosopher-becomes-a-christian/ ) is fascinating and encouraging because someone has worked through the philosophical evidence, read the Bible and trusted Jesus for eternal life. But he also highlights something interesting about arguments for God. In the stage before reading the Bible, he found the "proofs for … Continue reading Making the case for Christianity: simplest possible case or convergent net?
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Faith Seeking Understanding 2- the confessional goal, and overcoming mindless parroting of words
This is the second in a series on Anselm's faith seeking understanding approach. https://jotsandscribbles.blog/2024/10/18/faith-seeking-understanding-1-evangelical-suspicion-of-anselms-faith-seeking-understanding/ The lack of Bible in the arguments for Christian faith in Anselm’s “Faith seeking Understanding” seems troubling (see previous post). But it is worth understanding that the goal Anselm is aiming for is not set by a free ranging logic. He … Continue reading Faith Seeking Understanding 2- the confessional goal, and overcoming mindless parroting of words
Why left-hemisphere perception is helpful
McGilchrist's book 'The Master and his Emissary' makes the case that the left hemisphere of the brain cortex has become dominant in ways that stop us attending to context, whole realities, metaphor etc, and in the process we have become mere users of the world regardless of environmental or social negative effects. He would argue … Continue reading Why left-hemisphere perception is helpful
The problem of monofocus
(The outline of McGilchrist’s thesis is here: https://jotsandscribbles.blog/2023/11/07/introduction-to-the-master-and-his-emissary/) McGilchrist suggests that the two hemispheres of our brain tend to perceive the world differently. The left hemisphere tends to have a narrow beam, a tight focus on a specific area. The right hemisphere tends to have a broad awareness of everything that is going on. McGilchrist applies … Continue reading The problem of monofocus
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