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Keith Ward is an interesting guy, an Idealist if I understand, he does a very good job, in my opinion, at showing the absurdity of materialist reductionism.
ReplyDeleteYHWH at Patmos, is an awesome book, I highly recommend it, one of the best (that I know of) studies of the name in the second temple period.
I tried to read Kant once, it didn't go well.
there are some options here that look attractive to me though ... 12 and 15 especially.
Lactantius is also on my list, although I've read some of his work.
I enjoy read and listening to Keith Ward. Of course, I don't agree with all of his observations, but he has shown how absurd materialist reductionism is. His book, God, Chance and Necessity is worth reading.
ReplyDeleteCan't help but concur with YHWH at Patmos: very substantial/informative book.
Kant is Kant :)
I've taught some of his works, and I've endured most of The Critique of Pure Reason. Things could be worse; you could have tried Hegel or Heidegger. German idealism is tough.
It is my opinion that you'd probably like Westphal and Murphy: both are accessible. Lactantius is known as the "Christian Cicero." A number of the early church fathers were rhetoricians or trained in the discipline.
what from Westphal and Murphy? Can you send me a link please?
ReplyDeleteI actually have read a bit of Hegel, not any complete work, but just chapters here and there, mainly to try and understand other thinkers, and to have the background, I find Kant harder, maybe it's because I was a teenager when I tried to read kant.
Edward Feser is also great, I've been meaning to read his 5 proofs for a while.
Kant is difficult, but only because he uses certain technical terms although he's good at defining beforehand what they mean. But there is also a Kant Dictionary that you can access for help. It's also been said that Kant is easier to read in German :)
ReplyDeleteFeser keeps producing solid works: 5 Proofs and the work on metaphysics are both good: Last Superstition is snarky and written more informally, but Feser still has such a gift for explanation even in that work.
For Westphal and Murphy, see https://www.academia.edu/35448957/Book_Review_Merold_Westphal_God_Guilt_and_Death_
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bodies-and-souls-or-spirited-bodies/12EFE6CA34E402D46CA53442F27BED65
Thanks :);
ReplyDeleteBTW, if I may dare a book recommendation.
I think you would really enjoy reading David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 years, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, and Towards and Anthropological theory of Value. Those three books by David Graeber have really framed my thinking (and inspired me I should produce the books I did), I honestly think that David Graeber's Anthropology is an un-tapped goldmine for theology.
Thanks, Roman. I always appreciate recommendations.
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