The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World I’ve been impressed in my personal journey of discovery with the rational arguments for the existence of God throughout history, by Augustine and Anselm, and more recently, as I mentioned back in episode 11, by the logical argument for Jesus elaborated by Oxford’s C.S.
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to episode 14 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. My dad used to say the problem with the human being was we were born without an owner’s manual. I used
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to episode 13 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. As I’ve been developing this series, I have to admit I’ve been wondering about the acceptance of its premise in the
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World This is episode 12 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. I think one of the greatest difficulties I’ve had in coming closer to spirituality has been a pretty common one: mixing
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World How many times have you heard this phrase: “I don’t believe in God anymore because how could a loving God allow all this misery on Earth?” Usually it’s a Bruce Willis-like character in a war zone in some desolate African country squinting his eyes
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Can God and science exist together? I think that’s a fundamental question. I’ve heard some of the more vocal scientists proclaiming that a belief in God is the sign of a weak mind. Well, one thing I’ve discovered: the deeper I delve into the
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World The Dark Night of the Soul. In the theological canon, this signifies a spiritual crisis in a journey towards union with God. In more secular language, that would be the transformational journey that takes place when you’re suffering. A journey of transformation. A conversion,
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World So far in our series, we’ve been looking at the nature of life and God, and how that knowledge has been pushed aside from our daily considerations and from scientific inquiry, obviously. The concretization of the scientific method was an attempt to free the
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to Episode 7 of our Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. I was struck in re-listening to our last episode that perhaps some more explanation of the story of man might be
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to Episode 6 of our Modern Relevance of God podcast series here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. You might have noticed in our first few episodes, I’ve been mentioning the importance of the wisdom of the past to
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