On reading Spinoza's Ethics during a spiritual crisis. I've been a Christian all my life, and dedicated significant scholarly and other resources exploring Christian ideas and working through its commitment. Then my move to the US and my encounter with American Christianity changed everything.
American Evangelicalism seems to have become toxic in a very literal way, eating away at people's Christian faith. Americans make Christianity seem unbelievable. Faith seems to consist almost entirely of social evidence, which is sometimes overwhelming and sometimes absent.
Speaking of evidence, the link to Katherine Dormandy's defense of religious evidentialism is broken. Would you mind sharing that again? Thank you for helping ordinary people think intelligently about belief.
"I'm on research leave for a project on oneness (investigating all sorts of monistic metaphysical ideas from different traditions)....." Hi, I'm curious if in your research project, you've looked into Schopenhauer's notion of will as the fundamental essence of everything that exists, and if so, what do you think of that notion of the "world as will"
American Evangelicalism seems to have become toxic in a very literal way, eating away at people's Christian faith. Americans make Christianity seem unbelievable. Faith seems to consist almost entirely of social evidence, which is sometimes overwhelming and sometimes absent.
Speaking of evidence, the link to Katherine Dormandy's defense of religious evidentialism is broken. Would you mind sharing that again? Thank you for helping ordinary people think intelligently about belief.
"I'm on research leave for a project on oneness (investigating all sorts of monistic metaphysical ideas from different traditions)....." Hi, I'm curious if in your research project, you've looked into Schopenhauer's notion of will as the fundamental essence of everything that exists, and if so, what do you think of that notion of the "world as will"