Note to readers about what’s coming next
When I started this blog I knew there were lots of things I wanted to write about, and I expected them to fall into 2 broad categories: theological and philosophical reflections on God and the life of faith on the one hand, and spiritual, devotional writing on the other. The things I’ve written in the last 3 months are those that have come to mind each day as I sat down to write. I had no master plan. However, in the last few weeks I can see that the core of my worldview on religion has emerged, and I am now writing more systematically to expound what it is.
The series of posts on “How should we understand what God is” is the main starting point, and I thought it would be helpful to know where we’re headed. There is a lot of intensive reasoned argument coming, which I hope readers (O small, happy band of souls, may you be forever blessed!) will find interesting and enjoy thinking about. I will try and post some other things on the devotional side as “light relief”.
So, I think things will unfold like this:-
- The Journey of doubt
- Framework of understanding
- Framework of understanding idea related to God is the voice in our heads
- A biographical note on why my new framework of understanding God is so important
- God: Who are you? What are you?
- What use is God if he can’t actually do anything for us?
- What is the appeal of Jesus?
I must stress that, personally, I am perfectly happy to operate within the world of faith. However, I note that others are not, and it’s always struck me as the epitome of a good argument to be able to justify your case not simply using your ideas and values, but using the ideas and values of those who disagree with you. Therefore, in very broad brush terms, my overall aim is to provide a bridge between faith and reason. My hope is that I can show that faith in God is entirely reasonable in ways that both theists and atheists can agree on, rather than atheists and theists both arguing against each other that the other point of view looks wrong from within their own worldview. If I can show that faith is valid even within the atheist’s worldview, then, of course, it will also be valid within the faith worldview
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