My journey through the nature of truth has personally yielded many unexpected and insightful realizations. Early in Blackburn’s book, Truth, he suggested that the dichotomy of absolutism and relativism is probably more of a false dichotomy than a reality. After a closer look at the issues, Blackburn has shed some light on the nuance that […]
Instead of seeing prophets as primarily predictors of the future, Heschel wants us to see them as expositors of divine pathos. The prophets have a deep relationship with Yahweh and thus are attune to his emotional life. The Heschel quote for this paper states that a prophet is in “fellowship with the feelings of God”. […]
The commitment to equality and freedom are boldly stated in the Constitution. Having such a high standard, it makes sense why so many people are troubled by the state of the country since we rarely live up to them in a satisfactory way. Others criticize America for another reason, one that shows an even deeper […]
There are legitimate reasons for wanting to keep politics and religion separate. There are definitely ways of separating beliefs you have about the world into beliefs that are specifically religious. That being said, it is much more difficult and nuanced than it may seem for black communities to separate religion from political engagement. In some […]
One Christianity’s fiercest critics in recent history was none other than Malcolm X. Malcolm himself was a very religious man who admired and revered many figures in the Christian faith. He also was very familiar with the faith itself. His father was a pastor and Malcolm has spent much time studying the bible. This meant […]
Cohen’s criticism of Rawls is that Rawls’s theory doesn’t have any emphasis on the necessity of ethos. There is no scheme or method on how to cultivate the emotional state of people to be emotionally engaged with the principles of justice. For Rawls, what makes a society just is if they have laws and regulations […]
A historical principle says that the justice of a distribution depends upon how the distribution came about. So, this means that a distribution is just, if it comes about by all just transfers, and it is unjust if it involves any uncorrected unjust transfers. This is the sort of principle that Nozick’s entitlement theory is […]
In the ancient near east there were two common forms of treaties. One is the parity treatise, which happens between two social equals. The other is the suzerainty treatise, which is between the suzerain and their vassal. This latter form is the structure we see in the Sinai Covenant in Exodus 19-24. The suzerain treaty […]
Fannie Lou Hamer’s exquisite character traits are what made her such a leader in the civil rights movement. She was a strong woman who had courage and bravery that was unmatched, Mills writes on pg. 218, “she supported her convictions with every ounce of energy that she had, and my God, that women had some […]
One thing this class has made clear to me is that race is real. I’m not saying it’s real in any scientific or biological way, but real in the sense that people have different experiences in the United States, on account of their race. Thus, when thinking about effective and biblical ministry, it needs to […]
Power of Words 