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Reader. Writer. Runner. Fundraiser. SUP-er. Obsessed with philosophy and the ocean.

Posted on November 30, 2020November 29, 2020 by janamlight

OHPT: Thoughts on Jewish Theological Philosophy (Chapter 24)

And with that... we've completed the survey of Christian Philosophical Theology. It's really unfortunate that the Oxford Handbook folks reserved only three chapters for an exploration of philosophical theology in any other religions. Not only that, but how did Hinduism not get a chapter?! Color me SUPER unimpressed. This chapter is nowhere near as in-depth…

Posted on November 16, 2020November 17, 2020 by janamlight · 1 Comment

OHPT: Thoughts on The Eucharist (Chapter 23)

Warning: this is going to be a short post. After 500 pages of Christian theology (and hit-or-miss philosophy), I kind of hit my limit with "absurd theological beliefs that have perfectly satisfactory metaphorical or symbolic explanations but instead of talking about what richness lies therein we are going to twist ourselves in logical knots trying…

Posted on November 2, 2020October 31, 2020 by janamlight

OHPT: Thoughts on Heaven and Hell (Chapter 22)

Finally! We've come to the topic I have been eager for and a topic I feel VERY passionately about: the rationality of believing in hell. Spoiler alert: I don't think a belief in hell is rational if we are holding to the existence of a Good God, a perfectly knowing, powerful, loving God. But I'll…

Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 by janamlight

OHPT: Thoughts on The Resurrection of the Body (Chapter 21)

A short chapter! Praise be. On a topic that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me (and the author kind of agrees) so this was a fun little breeze. Also, I drop a "WTF" regarding Catholic theology so... fun times and let's dive in. "The Resurrection of the Body" was written by Dr.…

Posted on October 8, 2020October 6, 2020 by janamlight

Religion can save individuals. Only science can save the world.

I've been thinking a lot about the remarkable resistance of a number of Christians to the reality of science. Evangelicals have been shown to be three times more likely to flout CDC guidelines on COVID preparedness. Evangelicals don't want evolution taught in schools. Evangelicals want to ban abortion but don't want to do any of…

Posted on October 5, 2020October 9, 2020 by janamlight

OHPT: Thoughts on the Incarnation (Chapter 20)

My brain is so tired. This semester is kicking my booty a little, work is busy, Chris's life is busy and stressful, we have to do a lot of shuffling and reshuffling and moving to make way for our apartment building to do a big (overdue) plumbing retrofit... so I don't have much to share…

Posted on September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 by janamlight · 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking about Supreme Court justices

It's an odd and rather endearing quality of humans that as soon as someone passes, if they were good at something, anything really, then we suddenly view them through rose-colored glasses and believe, even for a moment, that they were transcendent. They become other-worldly, almost god-like in our eyes. I kind of love this about…

Posted on September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 by janamlight

An ethics course that actually helps people *be* more ethical

A few weeks ago, one of my favorite philosophy tweet follows, Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites), British philosopher and host of the fantastic podcast, Philosophy Bites, tweeted a question (a tweet I can no longer find because I am tech-inept) that was something to the effect of: If you were to teach an ethics class that was…

Posted on September 21, 2020September 25, 2020 by janamlight

OHPT: Thoughts on Original Sin and Atonement (Chapter 19)

Chapter 19 tackles one of the biggest questions in Christian theology, for the trained theologian and the layperson: how is it that Christ's death on the Cross atoned for humanity's sins? For that matter, what does "atone" mean? This chapter was written by Oliver D. Crisp. Dr. Crisp is Professor of Analytic Theology at the…

Posted on September 7, 2020September 6, 2020 by janamlight

OHPT: Thoughts on The Trinity (Chapter 18)

At first I was a little disappointed opening this chapter, because I realized we were entering a new section, leaving behind my beloved Problem of Evil. But Section IV, Topics in Christian Philosophical Theology (is that not what we've been doing this whole time?! Je suis confus) started off with an oldie but a goodie:…

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