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Einstein rejected all fear based and moral religion. The only valid aspect of religion for him lay in the third kind of religion; cosmic religion and he attempted to describe this cosmic religious feeling
Author: Glenn Chesnut
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People must learn how to find a core of true peace and calm inside, and then discover where to find it outside their minds as well. All of these things have to do with personal values and require us
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The important thing to note here is that Tillich insists that talk about a personal God is symbolic language (a metaphor) and not a literal description of a being that thinks and acts exactly like a
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This week’s DYK is continued from newly released book, God and Spirituality: A symbol, in Tillich’s theological system, is a signpost pointing our attention to something else. But we must
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This week’s DYK is about the need for symbolic language and metaphor. We cannot talk literally about the infinite without falsifying its infinite qualities, so there are few (if any) fully literal
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This week’s DYK is from a recently published book, God and Spirituality: A supra-personal ground of being does not contradict the scientific worldview. On Einstein’s fourth criticism, that belief
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After passing through any kind of historical cataclysm, however, this passage from Isaiah proclaims that human beings can turn to the real of the sacred and the infinite, and draw power and grace to
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This weeks DYK is about Einstein’s third argument, that religion is self-contradictory, is directed at the often-heard religious concept of “an omnipotent God who creates moral and physical evil
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This weeks Did You Know is excerpted from a new book entitled “God and Spirituality” it’s been sent to the publisher but not yet printed: The famous scientist Albert Einstein had
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This week’s DYK is excerpted from a book entitled “God and Spirituality’ just sent to the publisher: If I were asked what I thought made a work a perennial classic, I would point to three necessary
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Paul Tillich turned forty-three in 1929 and he finally got what he always wanted.He was given a full professorship (in sociology and philosophy) at the University of Frankfurt, a good university in
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This week’s DYK is a continuation of Paul Tillich’s story: Tillich did successfully get through World War I and his Dark Night of the Soul, and began building a new life for himself. He began
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This week’s DYK was written by a prominent professor with long-time sobriety: If the ground of being which preceded the Big Bang which created our universe could run out of energy,
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This week’s DYK is excerpted from Chapter 6, of a soon to be released book written by a prominent professor with long-term sobriety. The title of Chapter 6 is; The Ground of Being:
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Thomas Merton, when commenting on St. John of the Cross’ writings about the Dark Night of the Soul, noted that second and third–rate philosophers and theologians often write long wordy and complicated
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This week’s DYK is continued from a soon to be released book entitled “God and Spirituality”: Paul Tillich’s experience during the first World War challenged his faith far beyond anything he
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This week’s DYK is about Paul Tillich one of last century’s great spiritual teachers: Paul Tillich was born on August 20, 1886, in a small German village called Starzedel, where his father Johannes
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This week’s Did You Know is taken from a soon to be released book, “God and Spirituality,” by Glenn Chesnut: Paul Tillich, one of the great spiritual teachers of the 20th
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This week’s Did You Know is from a soon to be released book entitled God and Spirituality by Glenn Chesnut. The experience of the sacred: In finding new life and new meaning and purpose in the
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This week’s Did You Know is a continuation of a soon to be released book entitled “God and Spirituality,” by Glenn Chesnut: The cognitive structures of our minds have a profound effect
Glenn Chesnut
Glenn F. Chesnut was Professor of History and Religious Studies at Indiana University in South Bend for 33 years, where he was one of their most popular teachers, winning Indiana University’s