Christianity
God doesn't know why He loves you
God's self-binding act of love must finds its primordial origin before creation began, but why would God create in the first place?
Discovering the freedom in finitude
A working journal for psychoanalytic theory and religious living
psychoanalysis
I was naked, and I hid myself
This knowledge that we are "naked" – is it not the most human of notions? To realize that one is naked is to have a sudden realization of one's lack!
Theology
What place remains for worship in modern religion?
If the attraction of a faith community is ritual and connection, what place does all this singing, chanting, and confessing about God and his attributes have to do with self-development? Is it just a covert way of talking about ourselves?
Hegel
Hegel and the Lateralized Brain
The lateralized brain and Hegel's divided Whole are correlates of each other in that the gap in matter is re-doubled at the level of mind.
psychoanalysis
Book Review: Slavoj Žižek's "Freedom - A Disease without Cure"
If the contradictory experience of freedom which Žižek describes is accurate, then we must acknowledge that alienation is an essential part of freedom.
