TABLE OF CONTENTS: REFLECTIONS, INSTALLMENT FOUR

INSTALLMENT FOUR

March 1, 2009

INSIGHTS AND PREJUDICES

Since Nietzsche's pregnant asides and Chesterton's paradoxes often say more in an aphorism than I say in an argument, I decided to attempt a series of brief reflections on the philosophical and theological insights that strike me and, thereby, to subvert the hold of the prejudices that plague me.  I hope to limit each entry to a single page.

Three months later:  I've obviously been unable to limit most of these reflections to one page.  But any apology would be insincere, since I've enjoyed consigning them to writing.

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TOPICS:

1.  Conversations with Jesus

2.  Jesus' Agony in the Garden

3.  A Man of One Sermon

4.  A Pentecost Sermon

4A.  I Believe ....

5.  Moral Discourse

5A.  A Moral Center:  A Metaphor

5B.  Politicizing the Abortion Issue:  A Moral Quagmire

5C.  Misplaced Debates in Moral Discourse

5D.  Scotus' Haeceity:  A Noble Failure

6.  Critique of Hierarchical Structures

6A.  Jesus as Mediator

6B.  Involvement versus Relationship

7.  The Eucharist and the Agony in the Garden

8.  The Postmodernist Hermeneutics of Suspicion

9.  Secularism

10.  Biblical Themes and Symbols

11.  Reading the Scriptures

11A.  Stories of The Covenant

12.  Reason

12A.  The Autonomous Text

13.  Discerning God's Will

14.  My Description of Human Reality

15.  The Institutional Church

16.  Moral Discourse Revisited

17.  Literary Conventions and Literary Forms

18.  Reading the Old Testament

19.  Compassion

20.  Literary Forms....

21.  Shame and Guilt

22.  Consciousness of Sin

23.  Meta-Narratives

24.  Faith and Reason

25.  Ethical Theories

26.  Intimacy as a Form of Life

27.  Original Sin

28.  Authorized Versions of Events

29.  Passionate, Vulnerable, Respectful and Faithful Interactions

30.  The Language of Redemption

31.  Life Within the Trinity

32.  Annulment Proceedings

33.  Being a Priest

34.  The "Common Good"

35.  Utilitarianism

36.  The Need to Revisit Issues Again and Again 

37.  Justice

38.  Hermeneutics

39.  The Myth of Modernity

40.  Textured Experiences

41.  Forgiveness

42.  Life as Story

43.  Reason Revisited

44.  Orality and Literacy

45.  Catholic - Protestant Polemics:  A Misplaced Debate

45A.  Co-Authors of the Story of the Word Incarnate?

46.  Whose Voice Is Language?

47.  A Critique of Virtue-Ethics

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