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[ I ] t is worth noting that the superior simplicity and clarity of problems over solutions is not a feature peculiar to theology. It applies to all major intellectual issues, philosophical as well as religious . One can raise in a few sentences puzzles about the validity of sense-perception, about the possibility of knowledge and the possession of truth, or about the authority of conscience and the validity of moral judgements that have exercised philosophers for more than two thousand years and are still exercising them today. Under the customary protocol of dialectic the critic is not obliged, in formulating his sceptical challenge , to enter deeply into the complexities of the problem. On the contrary, his question stands out more clearly when these are left undeveloped. But, on the other hand, the issue, once opened up, may require for its further investigation and illumination farreaching trains of reasoning and a very wide conspectus of thought. Thus fundamental questions are ...

By  Jonny Thomson Nietzsche is one of history's most famous philosophers, and he's well-loved on social media. But a lot of people misunderstand his most famous quotation: ' God is dead .' Nietzsche didn't really like religion. In fact, he didn't really like any philosophy other than his own. But when he said 'God is dead,' he wasn't talking about the God of classical theism. He was talking about humanity — what we've done and what those actions mean . 'God is dead' is not the triumphant cheer of a dragon-slaying hero or a smug , cross-armed atheist at the back of the church. It's more like the shocked whispers of the lost. God , in this case, was the magnetic pole around which we all lived, and not the bearded, beneficent figure of myth. Before the Enlightenment emphasised science and rationality , God meant certainty, truth, security, and purpose. He was the Alpha and the Omega and the answer to all of life's questions. He wa...

« Ἂν πρέπει νὰ πῶ: ὑπάρχει ἢ δὲν ὑπάρχει ὁ Θεός,  θὰ εἶμαι πιὸ κοντὰ στὴν ἀλήθεια Του λέγοντας πὼς δὲν ὑπάρχει, ἀφοῦ εἶναι κάτι ἐντελῶς ἄλλο ὁ Θεὸς ἀπὸ αὐτὸ ποὺ ἐγὼ ξέρω ὡς  ὕπαρξη ». Ὁμολογία εὐτολμότατη Μάξιμου τοῦ Ὁμολογητῆ . Ἂν ὁ Θεὸς ἦταν δεδομένο τῆς νευτώνειας φυσικῆς, δὲν θὰ ὑπῆρχε λογικὸς ἄνθρωπος. Κι αὐτό, γιὰ τοὺς ἴδιους λόγους ποὺ ἕνα βρέφος δὲν θὰ εἰσαχθεῖ ποτὲ στὸν κόσμο τῆς γλώσσας καὶ τῶν συμβόλων, στὸν ἀνθρώπινο κόσμο, ἂν ἡ μάνα τὸ κρατάει μέρα νύχτα στὴν ἀγκαλιά της καὶ τοῦ δίνει τὸ στῆθος της. Γεννιόμαστε στὴ γλώσσα καὶ στὴ νόηση ἐπειδὴ στὸν ὁρίζοντα τῆς βρεφικῆς ἐποπτείας ἡ μάνα εἶναι καὶ χαρὰ παρουσίας ἀλλὰ καὶ ὀδύνη  ἀπουσίας — ἐπειδὴ ἡ ἐπιθυμία τροφῆς εἶναι πόθος σχέσης. Ἕνας Θεὸς ὑποχρεωτικὰ δεδομένος θὰ καταργοῦσε τὶς προϋποθέσεις νὰ μεταποιηθεῖ ἡ ἐπιθυμία σὲ αἴτημα, ὁ πόθος σὲ γλώσσα καὶ σύμβολα, σὲ λόγο καὶ λογική. Ὁ ἄνθρωπος εἶναι λογικὸς ἐπειδὴ εἶναι ὕπαρξη ἐρωτικὴ  ( desidero εἶναι τὸ...

Francesca Stavrakopoulou (1975) is a British biblical scholar and broadcaster. She is currently Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. The main focus of her research is on the Hebrew Bible, and on Israelite and Judahite history and religion [ ΠΗΓΗ ]. Η συνέντευξη με τη Φραντσέσκα Σταυρακοπούλου  υποτιτλισμένη στα ελληνικά  [ 13΄ ] We cannot possibly understand Western culture and the history of Western culture without the Bible. [I] love the Bible because it's like the most amazing collection of ancient literature ; reading it is like going into a time capsul, it's like time traveling and you get to to read all about these different sorts of myths and legends. Whether you're an atheist ,   like me, or you're religious, like other people, the Bible has played such a massive role in our lives right from when we're kids, that somehow to be in these places [the Holy Land ], I think you can't but help just feel engaged and ex...