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What Christian mystics can learn from Zen
Communion with God is only part of the way
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
Choosing to have faith
An eternal happiness is rooted in the infinite personal passionate interest, which the individual renounces in order to become objective, defrauded of…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
Let the dead bury the dead: Religious organizations and the death of the Spirit
Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. Gospel of Luke 9:60 Jesus's ministry was, to a great…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
April 2023
Tears in rain, language, and ice cream
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
Biblical directive or social engineering?
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret.” Matthew 6:6 The other…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
The web of belief: Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Quine and mysticism
It is ridiculous to treat everything as if the System were complete, and then to say in the end, that the conclusion is lacking. If the conclusion is…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
On the logical necessity of mysticism, Part 1
The word mysticism is a lot like the word metaphysics; it doesn't mean what most people think it means. The word mysticism carries with it a lot of…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
Christian Mysticism, Part 3
It’s almost always a bad idea to have really long quotations in a blog post, but I have to make an exception in the following case. Below is a paragraph…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
Christian mysticism, Part 2
Picking up from the prior post… The problem is that when we say “give me that old time religion” we are talking about the adolescent version of…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
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Christian mysticism Part 1
A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism. Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit There…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
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In 540 BC was the word...
Logos, (Greek: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”) plural logoi, in Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
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March 2023
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