Geoffrey Holsclaw

Here is a great interview with Alain Badiou.It is a great intro to his thought in the area of St. Paul, universalism and truth. Here is a bit of it: What is this new conception? For me,something is universal if it is something thatis beyond established differences. We havedifferences that seem absolutely natural tous. In […]

Alain Badiou on Emmanuel Levinas: concerning the ‘ethics of the other’ and whether it has a future…from Alain Badiou’s Ethics: Summary of Levinas: The greek origin of metaphysics has subordinated all thought to the logic of the Same, that of substance and identity. The metaphysics makes it impossible to encounter the Other in its alterity, […]

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I would say that philosophically and cultural/pastorally our problem is not our abandonment to the present, but rather the inability to receive the ‘present’ time. on answering the philosophical objections to the present (if that can be done): as I mentioned in the comments the either/or the modern/postmodern discussion seems to be a univocal present […]

what is the situation of the ‘present’, or the ‘now’, in the current philosophical and cultural perspective? philosophically:The ethics of the Other, recourse to the Past/Future, are all attempts to escape a totalitarian conception of rationality and correlated politics. With Levinas’ turn toward a forgotten past where ethics preceeded ontology, and Derrida’s endless deferral to […]

Well I’ve been working a bunch for church and at the ‘bucks. But I did manage to finish The Worthing Saga. I’ll post my reflections for SciFi Friday. Very thoughful posts on Senator Obama and that lack of the Christian Left from Jamie Smith (Barack Obama: Another Reason to Leave the Christian Left) with expansion […]

I’ve been in a discussion with Kester Brewin over at Complext Christ concerning the relationships of gift, market, and plunder economies. And then I came over this this morning. Very disturbing: “Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low: Neuro-imaging responses to Extreme Outgroups”. If you believe someone is not human, they even your brian acts as […]

“Contemplation means ‘being’ with God within the reality of the present moment” “We don’t know how to be with your kidsWe don’t know how to be with ourselves.We don’t know how to be with God.” (from CYM) Especially with the advent of Information Technologies, we never know when or where we are. This goes back […]

So I’m about to start reading something that intersects with something I just read. Riding in the back of a friends car, I saw a book by Orson Scott Card, and asked about it. He said it was better than Ender’s Game (which is hard to believe), so I borrowed it, The Worthington Saga. The […]

(continued from yesterday) new war This new, and I am persuaded more important, battle lines are being drawn within the ranks of those who have already dismissed the modern project. These postmodern pragmatists, instead of rejecting truth and objectivity (which is the inversion of the modern project), argue that Truth is in the Objectivity. Or […]