Introduction This series of essays is dedicated to reading Soren Kierkegaard through the radical empiricism of William James. The purpose is to use James’ thinking as an interpretative instrument through which several of Kierkegaard’s central categories: truth, subjectivity, selfhood, repetition, anxiety, and ethical existence—can be clarified … Continue reading A Most Passionate Inwardness: Reading Soren Kierkegaard with William James
This essay examines the inadequacies of liberalism as a political framework, particularly its failure to create coherent political identities. By utilizing William James’s concept of the self, it argues liberalism fell short in aligning material, social, and moral dimensions, leading to a crisis of the liberal subject and instability in contemporary political systems.
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.
The text discusses the creation narrative from a theological and philosophical perspective, linking St. Isaac’s teachings with C.S. Peirce’s concepts of chance and consciousness evolution. It emphasizes the universe’s transition from abstract potentiality to concrete reality, while highlighting the relationship between divine intention and human development, proposing a theory of Theological-Persuasive Tychism.
The Beginning of Terror 