Quotes
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Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, think, to enjoy, to love.
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Footprints of belief and doubt,
hope and despair.
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Introduction I will explore the differing ways people construct a belief in God, because I want to discover how people can live peaceably in a religiously plural world. I will do this ‘through the lens’ of Social Constructionism using Spiral Dynamics as a framework to explore and explain the formation of theological belief. Statement of Originality and Significance The theory of Social Constructionism will be applied in interpreting the formation of theological belief, seeking to identify how people arrive at what they believe. This concept is…
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Have you ever read something that changed everything for you?! Over a decade ago I read the quote below, unlocking something so paradigm-shifting for me that the world, all of a sudden, made a lot more sense. Philosopher of religion, John Hick, notes: Whilst theologians have been very good at taking account of all sorts of abstruse or obscure data they have sometimes failed to notice quite obvious facts, which are evident to ordinary people.…
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For we explain not what God is but candidly confess that we have not exact knowledge concerning Him. For in what concerns God, to confess our ignorance is the best knowledge. – Cyril of Jerusalem Some years ago I was introduced to apophatic mysticism through a Gungor song, Long Way Off. The verse in question goes: The erudite composed a thesis, Everything we see is all there is. But as an apophatic mystic, Were a long…
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