One cannot properly explore the evolution of metaphysics and theology in Western civilization and its metamorphosis into science, without having some level of understanding of its development and evolution after the so-called fall of the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages,… Read More ›
Judaism
The Ancient Hebrews: The Tanakh, Torah and Five Books of Moses
As a specific example of how a word, a concept, can be disfigured and lose its fullness and richness of meaning as it moves through successive languages of translation and cultural evolution, let’s look at how the Hebrew word Torah, which… Read More ›
Judeo-Christian Cosmology: A Comparative Perspective
The primary source for Judeo-Christian cosmology is can be found in the early part of the Bible[1], primarily in Genesis of course[2]. The challenge when looking at the Bible from a purely academic and historical perspective however, is that one… Read More ›
Religion and Politics: Separating Oil from Water
Searching for a a simple progression or development of monotheistic religions in the ancient world is no easy exercise by any standards. Monotheism clearly had tentacles that stretched far back into the dawn on civilized man, at least as far… Read More ›
A Walk with Moses
Moses and his One God: Jewish Roots Christianity and Islam are the most wide spread and influential monotheistic religions in the world today by any measure, and both sprung from and were heavily influenced by the monotheistic religions, and metaphysical and… Read More ›
Egyptian Mythology: The Bedrock of Western Theology
Judaism and Zoroastrianism clearly represented some of the earliest forms of monotheism in the civilized world, and both faiths had their respective prophets which each set of followers believed had had their respective laws, or truths, handed down to them… Read More ›
Knowledge and the Intellect: Extracting Truth from Scripture
Outside of his thesis coming together, with some clear indicators of cultural borrowing among Ancient Western civilizations with respect to the development of theology and philosophy, Charlie now had a much better context within which to view Niels’s letter which… Read More ›
Muslim Philosophy: Muhammad, the Qur’an and Aristotle
Despite Charlie’s Jewish heritage, at least Jewish by blood, and his penchant for the less rigid and orthodox theological systems of the East, he knew little about Islam outside of his aversion for its fundamentalist interpretation which, along with its… Read More ›
Early Christianity: Monotheism Becomes Marketable
The next major monotheistic development in ancient times after Zoroastrianism from the East, Judaism from the Ancient Palestinian region, and Atenism from Ancient Egypt/Northern Africa is Christianity, a system which emerged out of the cultural and religious melting pot of… Read More ›
Moses and Zarathustra: Long Lost Brothers
Christianity and Islam are the most wide spread and influential monotheistic religions in the world today by any measure, and both sprung from and were heavily influenced by the monotheistic religions, and metaphysical and philosophical systems, that preceded them most… Read More ›
The Advent of Monotheism: One Step forward and Two Steps Back
So there he was, really no closer to finding the source of materialism, or more aptly put by modern philosophers as the mechanistic world-view, than when he started his journey back through the dawn of civilization and mankind’s search for… Read More ›
Hellenistic Theo-Philosophy: Sowing the Seeds of Christianity
Despite his search through the evolution of thought from the dawn of civilization, particularly in the Mediterranean and Near/Far East, Charlie still had yet to find that marker, that break, where man had become so convinced of the reality of… Read More ›