Author Topic: God : The Evidence - The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in Postsecular World (Read 725 times)

Lorenzo · « **on:** May 07, 2012, 11:15:43 AM »

I am currently reading the book entitled GOD: The Evidence - The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular World, written by Patrick Glynn. I'm really liking it so far.

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2012, 11:31:45 AM »

An excerpt in page 17 of the book:

"The only guide to a man in his conscience ; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

I still regard this passage as the most concise, coherent, and persuasive argument for a strictly honorable life on purely secular grounds."

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Lorenzo · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2012, 11:43:51 AM »

Excerpt from page 17:

"Feelings accompany the metaphysical and metaphysical fact of love, but they do not constitute it; and the feelings that accompany it can be very different. Jesus' feelings for the possessed man is different from his feelings for the beloved disciple; but the love is one. Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love. This is no metaphor but actuality: love does not cling to an I, as if the You were merely its "content" or objects; it is between I and You.

Whoever does not know this, know this with his being, does not know love, even if he should ascribe to it the feelings that he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses. Love is a cosmic force....Love is the responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling-- the equality of all lovers, from the smallest to the greatest and from the blissfully secure whose life is circumscribed by the life of one beloved human being to him that is nailed his life along to the cross of the world, capable of what is immense and bold enough to risk it: to love man. "

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