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Wittgenstein and Levinas on Language: Part Two, Section A
This is a remarkably poorly named blog post, as I will not actually be discussing Wittgenstein and Levinas and their approaches to language until the post after the next one. My previous post was perhaps even more poorly named, as … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s Era Phliosophy, Levinas, Wittgenstein
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Wittgenstein and Levinas on Language: Part One
Introduction I want to talk a bit about how I find that the philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) seem to say similar things about the nature of human language. The relevance to theology is that humans are … Continue reading
Posted in Lent, Levinas, Philosophy, Random Personal Notes
Tagged Levinas, life, ludwig-wittgenstein, Philosophical training of Bruce Bryant-Scott, Philosophy, Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Philosophy at the University of Toronto in the 1980s, Philosophy in Canada in the 1980s, Wittgenstein, writing
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John 1.14: Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο . . .
This is a Sermon I Preached on Christmas Day over a year ago, on December 25, 2019 11:00 amat The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete. I am only getting it finished now . . . The … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas, Philosophy, Sermons
Tagged John 1.1-18, What does the Prologue of John mean?
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A Witness and a Testimony
A Sermon Preached At The Anglican Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Kefalas, Crete, Greece The Diocese in Europe | The Church of England October 27, 2019, 11:00 am [Expanded considerably for this blog] Key Questions: What has been your … Continue reading
Women’s Ways of Knowing
On this International Woman’s Day (March 8, 2019) I would refer my male friends to the book, Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. I read it back in the ’80s, and if I was not … Continue reading
Gender Fluidity in the Bible
What Happens When Queer Theory is Applied to Scripture? A talk given on March 21, 2018 at the Anglican Parish of St. George the Martyr, Cadboro Bay, in the Municipal District of Saanich, a suburb within Greater Victoria, BC, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Faith, Paul, Queer Theory, Song of Songs
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An Introduction to Levinas (Part Six-A)
Presence Note: This is the first half of the sixth part in an ongoing commentary on Emmanuel Levinas’s essay “God and Philosophy” (1974). a) In this section Levinas draws on Husserl and Heidegger to describe “consciousness of . . .”. … Continue reading
An Introduction to Levinas (Part Five-B)
Insomnia Note: This is the second half of the fifth part in an ongoing commentary on Emmanuel Levinas’s essay “God and Philosophy” (1974). It’s longer than usual. This next paragraph is even more dense than usual, so I will take … Continue reading
An Introduction to Levinas (Part Four)
Beyond the Polarity of Faith and Reason Note: This is the fourth part in an ongoing commentary on Emmanuel Levinas’s essay “God and Philosophy” (1974). 4. One can, to be sure, also claim that the God of the Bible has … Continue reading
An Introduction to Levinas (Part Three)
A Destruction of Transcendence 3. Philosophical discourse must therefore be able to embrace God of whom the Bible speaks – if, that is, this God has a meaning. But once thought, this God is immediately situated within the “gesture of … Continue reading
The Island Parson 