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Browsing by Author Baer, Richard
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| Preview | Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | | 12-Mar-1994 | Galatians, historical time line for Judaism and Christianity, Gospel precedes Law, Peter, Paul, and circumcision, Harvard grad school, Emil Brunner, how are we to love our neighbor? | Baer, Richard |
| 1-Feb-1994 | God and Religion: William Cantwell Smith The Meaning and End of Religion, "religio", reification, God reveals not religion, but himself; the language of discourse in the university, the importance of soft knowledge | Baer, Richard |
| 3-May-1994 | The God Who Plays | Baer, Richard |
| 11-Nov-2003 | The God Who Plays | Baer, Richard |
| 10-Mar-1994 | Greek vs. Hebrew views of history, discussion of Deut. 26, Deut. 6:20-25, the indicative precedes the imperative | Baer, Richard |
| 2-Sep-2003 | Guided discussion on values and facts, theoretical certainty, knowledge as warrantable assertions | Baer, Richard |
| 14-Apr-1994 | How much of heaven is available to us now? How much of the biocentric agenda is implementable without becoming inhumane? pros and cons of anthropo-, bio-, and theo-centrism; Parfit's dilemma - our obligations to future generations; John Passmore, Man's Responsibility to Nature; theistic, Christian, Jewish approaches; biocentrics as prophets of the ideal | Baer, Richard |
| 4-Dec-2003 | How should we live?, CS Lewis, sehnsucht, the sweet poison of the false infinite, overzealous reformers and planners, praise and celebration, cosmic compost, Merlin Caruthers, Thomas Merton | Baer, Richard |
| 4-Sep-2003 | How to read the assigned readings, Sachs, facts, values, knowledge, relativism, radical doubt | Baer, Richard |
| 28-Aug-2003 | Introduction: How should we live? intentions vs. performance, Bill Joy Why the future doesn't need us, the theology of the ballet, CS Lewis The Abolition of Man, discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 25-Jan-1994 | Introduction: Religion and culture - the nature of religion; personal stories | Baer, Richard |
| 9-Oct-2003 | The limitations of rationalism in ethics, male and female perspectives, Carol Gilligan, modern feminism, the environmental effect of social pathologies | Baer, Richard |
| 18-Sep-2003 | The meaning of the term nature, consequences of the desacralization of nature, King David and Nathan the prophet, the romanticization of nature, the need for historical imagination | Baer, Richard |
| 2-Dec-2003 | The modern university, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, questions and comments about the course, imposing beliefs on others | Baer, Richard |
| 8-Feb-1994 | Moral judgments, epistemology and Liberal thinking, enlightenment and post-modern reasoning, polishing bowls | Baer, Richard |
| 28-Apr-1994 | The nature of the environmental debate, extremist language, the Loyal Opposition, magnanimity and trust vs. government regulation, developing standards for truth-telling in the context of contentious issues, elephants in Zimbabwe, the Boston Rt 128 loop, development value, Henry George Progress and Poverty, ethics of transition and compromise, Spotted Owl habitat, property use restrictions | Baer, Richard |
| 25-Sep-2003 | Philosophy of science - faith and reason, values and facts; fallibism, running commentary on Ian Barbour Issues in Science and Religion: logical positivism and the "verification principle", factual claims vs. value claims, Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge, brief discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 13-Nov-2003 | Reinhold Niebuhr, history of Judaism and Christianity, Paul's letter to the Galatians, God's love, freedom, writer's block at Harvard | Baer, Richard |
| 16-Sep-2003 | Relationship between humans and nature, dominion over nature, H. and H.A. Frankfort Before Philosophy, ancient and modern cultural myths, Lynn White The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, Western scientific progress and the desacralization of nature, Louis Moncrief The Cultural Basis of Our Environmental Crisis, democratization and the exploitation of nature, Biblical environmentalism, short discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 3-Feb-1994 | Religion in the University: Emil Brunner, Jefferson and the use of the word sectarian, implications for government public schools, the Big Questions, religious neutrality, a functional view of religion, Emil Durkheim, the Cornell School of Human Ecology, discussion | Baer, Richard |
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