Religion ‘sui generis’?
When a religion claims that it is the word of God and that the word is unconditionally true; and that, further, the word is about the Cosmos: everything that was,…
Read moreSecularized Christian theme: Hacker’s inclusivism and exclusivm
1. When we consider Paul Hacker’s story on ‘inclusivism as a typically Indian thought form’, all we can conclude is that he has used a typically Christian thought form to understand an…
Read moreEnlightenment vs. Mysticism
(1) What is called ‘mysticism’ in the western culture is not the same kind of experience that the different Indian traditions talk about. (2) I do think, as a corollary,…
Read moreChristian theology and linguistic intuitions: prostitute
1. In so far as the suggestion is that the English word ‘prostitute’ does not capture the connotations of the earlier uses of ‘Veshya’, as I said, I agree with…
Read moreIs Bible an explanatorily intelligle account of Cosmos and of itself?
When a religion claims that it is the word of God and that the word is unconditionally true; and that, further, the word is about the Cosmos: everything that was,…
Read moreChristological Dilemma
X says that Christological dilemma is some kind of theological logic and suggests that ordinary Christians are not affected by this artificial problematic. There are two issues here worth looking…
Read moreAtheism: a secularized theism—Jakob de Roover
1: Atheism is a phenomenon that came into being in the western culture at around the time of the so-called Enlightenment. The West claims that it liberated itself from the…
Read moreWhat makes Christianity a religion? The structure of Christianity as a religion
The logical steps that inevitably make the claim that God revealed His Will in Jesus Christ into an unconditional and exclusive truth claim are fairly simple: (a) Christianity says that…
Read morePresumption of Knowledge—S.N.Balagangadhara
The first striking thing is their presumption of knowledge at several levels. Yet, they display abysmal ignorance. (a) Christianity has not just had a two thousand years’ history. It has…
Read moreHow to produce knowledge about “Who is a Christian”—S.N.Balagangadhara
Imagine that I were to say the following: Christ and Ganesha are manifestations of the same divinity; Christ came about 2000 years ago in the Middle East, whereas Ganesha is…
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