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| The Evolution of God by Robert Wright; A NY Times book review | |
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| ngc1514 | Jul 1 2009, 10:57 PM Post #1 |
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Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, is the author of “Descartes’ Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human.” His book “How Pleasure Works” will be published next year. |
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| Mike | Jul 2 2009, 01:43 PM Post #2 |
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The author's bio says he was raised in a southern baptist family. I wonder if his works are a result of something inspired by that church... |
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| ngc1514 | Jul 2 2009, 09:48 PM Post #3 |
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Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin was brought up in the Anglican church. Jack Miles (God: A Biography) "was a Jesuit seminarian from 1960 to 1970, studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before completing a doctorate in the department of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard." (From the Wiki article under his name.) Karen Armstrong (A History of God) "Armstrong was born into a family of Irish extraction who, after her birth, moved to Bromsgrove and later to Birmingham. In her late teens, she became a nun in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a teaching order, in which she lived from 1962 to 1969." (From the Wiki article under her name.) I'm sure there's some point to your comment. Are you saying his southern baptist upbringing gave him more insight into god's evolution than he might have had had he been raised a Lutheran? Or less? Are his observations more or less accurate than Catholic Miles and Armstrong's? |
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| Mike | Jul 2 2009, 10:18 PM Post #4 |
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No, I was simply wondering why he would undertake such a study that involves the various concepts some peoples have about God. And whether there was something in his church that drove his inquiry. |
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| ngc1514 | Jul 2 2009, 10:50 PM Post #5 |
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Intellectual curiosity? An exploration of the obvious fact that the god of the Old Testament is not the same god most people today worship? The seemingly interesting idea that our concepts of god are more a reflection of us than of some biblical deity? I'm sure you can come up with other reasons that answer your question. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 3 2009, 10:23 PM Post #6 |
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Or Bart Ehrman's? Bart is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was an Evangelical Christian who studied at the Moody Bible Institute and took his his Ph.D and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, a historical center of Christian thought in America. Didn't know that about Karen Armstrong, whose work I've read. I'll add Robert Wright' The Evolution of God to Jack Miles' God: A Biography to my Amazon cart. As I read the review I kept repeating in the back of my head that it's not God who has changed but man's conception of Him, so I was pleasantly surprised that that was Wright's point: "For Wright, it is not God who evolves. It is us — God just comes along for the ride." |
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| Deleted User | Jul 3 2009, 10:26 PM Post #7 |
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Mike "And whether there was something in his church that drove his inquiry." What drove Socrates, Augustine, Aquinas, St Anselm, Grotius is the same thing that drives these authors--a search for truth. Some may follow, most never let themselves ask. |
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