Congratulations to contributor Daniel Den Boer (who blogs on his own as well at To A More Dangerous Conversation), for his acceptance to Duke Divinity School!
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March 5, 2010
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Bataille’s Theory of Religion (1): Immanence
By Robert Minto in Bataille, Immanence, ReligionAs I find the time over the next few days, I will be posting a summary of and engagement with Bataille’s Theory of Religion. I discovered this text during an independent study of theories about desire in the 20th century [note: same one Matt's been posting such delicious little essays because of.] — I read The [...]
Tags: Desire, duration, human consciousness, Immanence, intellectual imagination, philosopher, Self-Consciousness, theologian, theory of religion, transcendence
February 14, 2010
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Sunday Sundries
By Robert Minto in SundriesThree excellent posts from Memoria Dei (which is shaping up to be a really excellent theo-blog): Ways to be theologically Heideggerian, Reading the Medievals as Philosophers, Teaching Anselm’s Proslogion.
Halden asks, is it significant that Paul calls the church the bride and not the wife of Christ?
Thomas Bridges offers an hilarious Schleiermacherian version of Amazing Grace.
Finally, [...]
Tags: amazing grace, anselm, halden, lizard, medievals, memoria, proslogion, secret caves, Sundries, thomas bridges
February 3, 2010
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A Follow-up to “On Learning to Write”
By Robert Minto in RhetoricA reader of this post wrote to ask me what I have against “how to write” books, and Strunk & White in particular. Over at The Anti-moderate, I answered.
Tags: how to write books
January 31, 2010
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Sunday Sundries
By Robert Minto in SundriesOver at the wonderful Faith and Theology blog, Kim Fabricius considers Obama and the Poverty of Niebuhrian Ethics, and then Glen Stassen re-consider’s Obama’s Nobel Speech Prize, with special reference to the under-discussed notion of just peace.
John Hobbins has an excellent post about Myth in the Bible.
Simon Ravenscroft points out that when it comes to [...]
Tags: Bible, capitalism, corporations, ethics, fabricius, Faith, Haiti, john hobbins, myth, nobel speech, peace, poverty, ravenscroft, subscriptions, Sundries, Theology
January 29, 2010
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Oh no, he did it again…
By Robert Minto in Blogging, Plans, ProspectsYou knew it had to happen. The moment I decided to make TVA a group blog, my endemic capitalist disease of diversification was coming down the pike.
I love the way TVA is working out — the balance between things like Kenny’s post about the politics of the RC-Anglican thing, Joel’s musing about apocalyptic movies, and [...]
Tags: Anglican, Desire, diversification, longtime reader, new blog, news, Prospects, Robert Minto, stream of consciousness, The Anti-moderate, tva
January 24, 2010
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On Learning To Write (Without All the Usual BS)
By Robert Minto in Education, Rhetoric, ScholarshipI have experienced far, far too many writing courses. When I was homeschooled for a while in high-school, I read dozens of books on How to Write — How to Write Essays, How to Write Stories, How to Write Poetry. I read Zinsser’s book on non-fiction, Gardner’s book on fiction, and Williams’s book on style. [...]
Tags: american rhetoric, edgar allen poe, famous writers, how to write essays, how to write poetry, john updike, robert louis stevenson, samuel johnson, sir thomas browne, strunk and white, wordsworth, writing courses, writing process, zinsser
