Introduction This essay can be considered a return to my project of conceiving an Eastern Orthodox Christian Process Theology as elaborated in The Seamless Garment: A Groundwork for an Eastern Orthodox Process Theology and The Quintessence of Dust: The Human Hypostasis as the Image and … Continue reading Creation as a Verb: Becoming, Freedom, and Fall in a Process-Relational Cosmos
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaksDo lace the severing clouds in yonder east:Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.I must be gone and live, or stay and die.– Romeo, … Continue reading It Was the Lark: Toward a New Theology of Christian Love
This essay explores how Christians can cultivate a poetic sensibility to find meaning and purpose in life. By examining the effects of materialism and science on spirituality, it highlights insights from various philosophers and invites an artistic engagement with Creation, emphasizing relationality, creativity, and the transformative power of love in human experience.
This essay synthesizes the Patristic cosmology of St. Basil the Great and Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, focusing on their views of time, divine nature, and creation. Both thinkers present layered, meaningful models of temporality shaped by divine intention, emphasizing the relational and participatory aspects of time in connection with God’s activity and redemption.
This essay examines Ambiguum 41 by St. Maximos the Confessor through the perspectives of Hans Jonas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It argues that humans, as mediators between the divine and the cosmos, engage in a participatory role in creation. Both thinkers emphasize the significance of relational being, freedom, and the potential for transformation through understanding and love.
Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and physicist Erwin Schrodinger share an intellectual connection centered on the concept of ontological oneness. Schopenhauer anticipated themes present in quantum mechanics, emphasizing a unified reality beyond time and space. Both thinkers challenge conventional distinctions between observer and observed, highlighting the interplay of will and representation.
This study examines Marx’s political and social theories through radical empiricism, focusing on three main areas: his theory of production, labour theory of value, and concept of alienation. It highlights how capitalism commodifies labour, leading to alienation and the reduction of human creativity, impacting both individual existence and societal relations.
This essay compares J.R.R. Tolkien and William James, highlighting the enactive power of imagination and fantasy in shaping lived experiences. Both thinkers articulate the interplay of joy and sorrow, emphasizing that imaginative faculties enable melioristic ideals and moral action, fostering transformation and hope within the human condition amid adversity.
This essay explores the phenomenology of organisms, focusing on the concept of Umwelt as introduced by Jacob von Uexkull, which defines each organism’s unique perceptual world. It delves into theories of cognition related to living systems, emphasizing the interconnectedness of organisms and their environments as they interact, adapt, and evolve.
This essay explores embodied phenomenology within William James’ radical empiricism, emphasizing consciousness as a dynamic process emerging from the holistic interplay of mind, body, and environment. It critiques traditional subject-object dichotomies, advocating for a view where pure experience is fundamental to understanding lived reality. James’ insights resonate with later phenomenologists like Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
The Beginning of Terror 