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“Every philosophy of life will have an anthropology—a stance on what a human is. Do we interpret the human being through the grid of economics and class struggle (Marxism), biology and the struggle to survive (naturalistic Darwinism), or suffering produced by attachment to transitory things (Buddhism)? Are we bundles of experiences, streams of consciousness?”
― Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith
― Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith
“Some are convinced that the universe has no point. The cosmos is indifferent, deaf to our cries and oblivious to our tears. Human beings are nothing more than molecules in motion—biological organisms trying to survive and reproduce but destined to eventual extinction along with all else in the universe. Is that the story we should believe?”
― Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith
― Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith
“To blithely say “it could have happened” that a life-permitting, life-producing, and life-sustaining universe is the product of chance is naive. It fails to take seriously all that is required to get from “zero” to a single-celled organism to Homo sapiens.”
― Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith
― Loving Wisdom: A Guide to Philosophy and Christian Faith
“In this introduction, we see motifs and ideas that are classic elements of an apocalyptic worldview: a human who receives a divine vision (in this case, Enoch); this vision is a mystery of heavenly wisdom that has not been revealed before; and the seer who receives the vision recounts it to others on earth so that they might understand the true nature of things.”
― Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism
― Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism
“We call this an apocalyptic worldview because it reflects a system of beliefs that includes the idea that what humans see and perceive as their earthly experience is in fact not the whole story. There is the deeper and invisible reality of a divine and heavenly realm. Moreover, the God of this heavenly realm reveals himself (hence “apocalyptic,” from the Greek word meaning “to reveal”) to his chosen people, his “elect,” and he tells them how the world really is—how it is structured, what the angelic realm is like, etc. (e.g., 1 En. 59:1–3; 60:11–23; 69:17–25). This enables the elect to live rightly and with hope that despite the way things appear now, God is at work and in control.”
― Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism
― Reading Mark in Context: Jesus and Second Temple Judaism
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