Astonishingly, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy reports that Islam does not even have a concept of the person: “There is no conceptual equivalent of the Western philosophical concept of ‘person’ in Arabic and in classic Islamic
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“The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”
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“If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ.”
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“Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.”
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“También muchos desprecian el arte moderno encogiéndose de hombros, sin ver que es una de las claves para interpretar los tiempos en que vivimos. Porque muchas de estas obras, y en particular las más extravagantes, son señales de la crisis de nuestra cultura. Encubren nuevas formas de pensamiento. Proclaman la falta de sentido en todo lo que quizá consideramos sagrado. Algunas de estas obras podrían ser una bomba destinada a los bajos del sillón del sistema liberal de la cultura occidental en la que puede que estés aposentado. Ten cuidado. Este arte te obliga a escoger. Hace que adoptes una postura: tienes que quedarte con una cosa u otra.”
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Jaime’s 2024 Year in Books
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