Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
If Philosophy is the art of asking "Why?" then the first natural question to ask when starting to study the field is "Why?" Why study Philosophy?
Our first weeks readings in my course have offered some reasons for studying philosophy. Both of the authors felt the need to defend ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Last night was my first lecture in a Philosophy subject I'm studying this semester. I usually enjoy first lectures in a subject because it seems to be when the lecturer is fresh and keen to inspire the students to be interested in the topic so I get to invibe ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
The religion report this week celebrated 40 years since Pope Paul VI published Humanae Vitae in which he famously banned the pill. The show aired a number of interviews with various experts and commentators including Stephen Crittenden's (the host) Mum.
My summary of the story is that the Pope felt ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
As a bit of fun, I ran my Liturgy since Vatican II essay through "Wordle":http://wordle.net which produced the following result:
It's amazing how this simple graphic is able to present the a "vibe" of a piece of text. It could be useful in lectures and seminars to add colour to ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Now that we've got the current affairs out of the way, I'd like to pull out some bits and pieces from the subject I did on liturgy this semester. Liturgy is that thing that Christians do on Sundays where they sit in pews and stand up and sit down ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I still don't claim to fully understand all of what is going on for the Anglican Church right now but there have been some interesting developments since the resolutions of GAFCon have been published.
According to the Religion Report, the outcome of GAFCon is that the members have resolved to be ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
I was hoping to start off posting some important commentary about the stuff going down at "Lambeth and GAFCon":http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2008/2285048.htm and the recent statements on "Women Bishops":http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iMq9jQuThpO7FMBInndoRGB0HNKA but I don't know enough about either the complexities of women bishops or the nature of the Anglican Communion to comment.
From what I can ...
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