CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC – William James
Now in these lectures I propose to ignore the institutional branch entirely … and to confine myself as far as I can to personal religion pure and simple.
CONVERSION – The Varieties of Religious Experience
To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right superior and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities.
Aristotle – Happiness Is Co-extensive with Contemplative Speculation
Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Happiness then is co-extensive with this Contemplative Speculation
Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 Man and Beast Both Die in the End
16 Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. In the last section, we were told that God does what He desires, nothing interferes with God’s purposes. This construct brings up an ancient question, why does God allow wickedness? Why […]
Kierkegaard – My Depression is the Most Faithful Mistress
You can survive feelings like, “My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Days of Heaven on Earth – January – Daily Readings – AB Simpson
Days of Heaven on Earth AB Simpson Daily Scripture – January January 1 “Redeeming the time” (Eph. v. 16). Two little words are found in the Greek version here. They are translated “ton kairon” in the revised version, “Buying up for yourselves the opportunity.” The two words ton kairon mean, literally, the opportunity. They […]